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Facts vs. Fiction: A Report from the Front
The American Enterprise ^
| February 2006
| Karl Zinsmeister
Posted on 02/02/2006 5:59:50 AM PST by RKV
Your editor has just returned from another month in Iraq—my fourth extended tour in the last two and a half years. During November and December I joined numerous American combat operations, including the largest air assault since the beginning of the war, walked miles of streets and roads, entered scores of homes, listened to hundreds of Iraqis, observed voting at a dozen different polling sites, and endured my third roadside ambush. With this latest firsthand experience, here are answers to some common queries about how the war is faring.
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Iraq is now creeping away from murderous authoritarianism to face the more normal messes of a creaky Third World nation: corruption, poverty, health problems, miserable public services. And that is vastly preferable to what came before.
(Excerpt) Read more at taemag.org ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraq; oif; personalaccount; zinsmeister
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Long and detailed evaluation of the situation in Iraq by and author who has been in country multiple times since the invasion.
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02/02/2006 5:59:52 AM PST
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RKV
To: RKV
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02/02/2006 6:06:51 AM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: RKV
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02/02/2006 6:14:09 AM PST
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: RKV
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02/02/2006 6:14:37 AM PST
by
PeteB570
(NRA life member and I vote)
To: PeteB570
You are very welcome. Zinsmeister actually got out of his hotel and observed what was going on - that's probably why his story has quite a different line than the MSM guys who stay in the bar and rely on their stringers to bring them disinformation.
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:17:48 AM PST
by
RKV
( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
To: RKV
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02/02/2006 6:18:45 AM PST
by
Tribune7
To: RKV
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:21:37 AM PST
by
MEG33
(GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
To: RKV
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posted on
02/02/2006 6:33:33 AM PST
by
jonascord
("As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!")
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02/02/2006 6:35:28 AM PST
by
federal
To: federal
bookmarked...a great reference
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posted on
02/02/2006 7:43:54 AM PST
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: RKV
Excellent read. Saved to favorites. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
02/02/2006 8:52:20 AM PST
by
Sisku Hanne
(Happy 2006...The Year of the Black Conservative!)
To: Sisku Hanne
This really deserves to be bumped.
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02/02/2006 12:25:14 PM PST
by
Sisku Hanne
(Happy 2006...The Year of the Black Conservative!)
To: Sisku Hanne
This really deserves to be bumped.It's an amazing report that should be bumped, read, and E-mailed to friends, family and anyone we can think of.
Yet here on a conservative forum it struggles to get twelve replies. And people get upset about my tagline... [shaking head]
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02/02/2006 4:12:42 PM PST
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: Justanobody; tgslTakoma; BillF; Landry Fan; Dog; Cap Huff; Boot Hill; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
First-hand report and excellent read about our troops and their amazing performance in Iraq.
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02/02/2006 4:15:22 PM PST
by
Coop
(FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
To: Coop
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02/02/2006 4:19:27 PM PST
by
Landry Fan
(Democrat Senators need to grow up and stop being creeps!)
To: Coop
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02/02/2006 4:24:23 PM PST
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Dog
To: RKV
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posted on
02/02/2006 4:38:51 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The first amendment does NOT protect vulgar and obscene speech.)
To: Coop
Thanks for the ping to this excellent, comprehensive, fact-filled article that counters every major libtard objection and canard concerning American involvement in Iraq. It's all here. FReepers, e-mail the link to all your friends.
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02/02/2006 4:39:47 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(America will not run, and we will not forget our responsibilities. – George W. Bush)
To: Coop; 1 Olgoat; 103198; 10Ring; 11Bush; 1stbn27; 2ndClassCitizen; 2SterlingConservatives; ...
To: facedown
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02/02/2006 4:56:59 PM PST
by
beansox
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