I agree with much of what you said. I think we have been to P.C. in alot of things we have done in Iraq.
My point is with the "AP celebrates" is they use the body count as a way to drive down support for our troops and their mission in Iraq. The Liberals in the world, DC and the US MSM would love nothing more than a hollow military that we were left with in the mid to late 70's after they destroyed our efforts in Vietnam. This is exactly what they are trying to accomplish here and God help us if we get a Rat in the White House in 2009 because we will have that hollow miltary from the 1970's once again.
And then we will be open for all sorts of attacks against Americans here and overseas.
We know the MSM. We know only wackos or morons follow the MSM.
What we conservatives should be focusing on is not what the MSM does, but how we as conservatives should direct our efforts to cause change for the better.
With Bush's Miers pick, we did exaclty that. Our outrage caused Bush to trash his Miers pick and we forced his hand to name a great nominee in Sam Alito. With this politically correct "police action" in Iraq, we need to do the same. We need to voice outrage at Bush for failing to carry through with his promise to go after nations that aid and abet terrorists. Bush is standing by while our troops are killed daily from IEDs made in Iran and from thugs who entered Iraq form the Syrian border. Bush promised us in his 911 speech that "you are with us or with the terrorists" and that he would "go after nations that harbor and aid terrorists". Everybody knows that Iran and Syria are at war with the USA. It is the Iranian IEDs that are killing our boys. It is the Syrian border that allows these thugs to kill our boys. Why has Bush reneged on his promise?
We held Bush accoutnable for the ludicrous pick of Harriet Miers. Our reaction changed the course of American history by forcing Bush to name Sam Alito. We can do the same here withthe Iraq war. We need to do the same here with Bush's Iraq tactics. We need to demand that this war be fought as a war against terror with a goal of winning and a goal of forcing nations that harbor terrorists to end their war against the USA and its troops.
Should Bush continue with his go nowhere war, then we should demand that we get out of the war business. Either fight a war like a war, or do not "fight" at all.