William Tecumseh Sherman
"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."
Thanks, I can never get too much of the clarity of Thomas Sowell.
The man has sense and understanding.
The time table demand DemonRATS keep harping about is merely the same tried and true formula John Kerry used during the Viet Nam war. It was actually a part of a plan by the Communists, and John Kerry, colaborator, the vehicle of delivery. We all know what the result of that was. It turned victory into defeat, turned a retreating NVA into an advancing one, and costs the lives of another half million people.
The Democrats and MSM were proud of themselves then, and want to repeat this shameful treasonous act yet again. The lives of Iraqi's aren't their concern, they never were. Only regaining power is -at any price.
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Why has it taken so long? Why isn't it written about more frequently?
The fact that such a large number of supposedly unrelated and independent media outlets all speak with this one treacherous voice makes the fact of a conspiracy undeniable, even if it's on the "prince of the powers of the air" level, rather than humanly coordinated.
The media seem to have come up with a formula that would make any war in history unwinnable and unbearable: They simply emphasize the enemy's victories and our losses.
Losses suffered by the enemy are not news, no matter how large, how persistent, or how clearly they indicate the enemy's declining strength.
...Has anyone ever believed that any war could be fought without deaths on both sides? Every death is a tragedy to the individual killed and to his loved ones. But is there anything about American casualty rates in Iraq that makes them more severe than casualty rates in any other war we have fought? On the contrary, the American deaths in Iraqi are a fraction of what they have been in other wars in our history.
...Neither our troops nor the terrorists are in Iraq just to be killed. Both have objectives. But any objectives we achieve get short shrift in the mainstream media, if they are mentioned at all.
Our troops can kill ten times as many of the enemy as they kill and it just isn't news worth featuring, if it is mentioned at all, in much of the media. No matter how many towns are wrested from the control of the terrorists by American or Iraqi troops, it just isn't front-page news like the casualty reports or even the doom-saying of some politicians.
The fact that these doom-saying politicians have been proved wrong, again and again, does not keep their latest outcries from overshadowing the hard-won victories of American troops on the ground in Iraq.
...Utter ignorance of history enables any war with any casualties to be depicted in the media as an unmitigated disaster.
Even after Nazi Germany surrendered at the end of World War II, die-hard Nazi guerrilla units terrorized and assassinated both German officials and German civilians who cooperated with Allied occupation authorities.
But nobody suggested that we abandon the country. Nobody was foolish enough to think that you could say in advance when you would pull out or that you should encourage your enemies by announcing a timetable.
There has never been the slightest doubt that we would begin pulling troops out of Iraq when it was feasible. Only time and circumstances can tell when that will be. And only irresponsible politicians and the media think otherwise.
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For perspective, "2000" is roughly the number of Americans killed in the first half-hour on Omaha Beach.
There was a show on the History Channel about a week ago about the Nazi "Werewolves" who started killing "disloyal" Germans even as they themselves were retreating on both fronts in the face of the Allied onslaught.
The killing of cooperative bureaucrats continued up until late '48 or early '49.
This information is readily available to anyone who cares to click it up on the Internet. It is only because the MSM is both lazy and prejudiced that this information has not been long since reported in all media, since it is clearly relevant to today's events in Iraq.
Congressman Billybob
As much as I hate to ever disagree with Sowell, people have posted archived news articles showing exactly the same cut-and-run mentaility in post-war Germany as we see today in post-war Iraq. It's just that such sentiments were far rarer then, today they are the norm.
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I discovered Thomas Sowell back about '72, thanks to a history teacher of mine, Mr. Hewitt, who I think both liked his arguments, and was interested in this well educated, conservative Black man who noted that prejudice wasn't necessarily a barrier to economic success. He was a voice crying in the wilderness then.
At least, there are more people who listen to him now, I believe...black and white. Always a good read.
When they started it, it was obvious that they were hoping for US casualties, so they could use the garden as a public relations tool.
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