Lt. Colonel John M. Kanaley: Unreported History in Baghdad

RealClearPolitics ^ | February 13, 2006 | Lieutenant Colonel John M. Kanaley

[in hoc signo vinces]

Figures...Good News seems to go unreported by the MSM, ALL THE TIME...since it would be counter to their agenda.

[TexasCajun]

Thanks for the report Sir!

-Stay Safe-

[Search4Truth]

The MSM is a greater threat to freedom than the terrorists. You can kill terrorists.

[SkyPilot]

"If the news doesn't hurt President Bush, we ain't gonna report it! What? Do you think us press boys vote Republican or something?!"

[bubman]

It's OK we have FreeRepublic.com. We do not need the MSM NO MORE!

[freema]

Yes, were it not for FR, we would not have heard this news.

Thank you for posting this piece.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Pro Military News that the media refuse to cover PING

This needs to be sent to the
Right Wing Media shows and hosts
that did not cover this.

Where are the GOP ads supporting our troops?

They had money for the Supreme Court ads,
why not our troops?

[Soaring Feather]

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[Calpernia]

The silence was deafening and the seats were empty. The western press was nowhere to be found. The location was Baghdad and the event was a February 10th, 2006 press conference announcing the final verification of December's election results. Although the final allocation of parliamentary seats did not change from last month's tentative reports, the conference was nonetheless significant for American and Iraqi history. What was equally significant was the absence of members of the western press.

If the pre-release of the topics to be discussed included reports of widespread voter fraud, complaints by detained terrorists of maltreatment, or a sudden clamoring for the return of the deadly former dictator, certainly, the major news networks and the print media would have found time to attend. Of course, their reports would have consisted of their own perceived failure of western style elections in a part of the world that they deem to be unprepared for democracy. Since they were unable to report a "disastrous" event of this war, apparently, their budgets did not allow for attendance in Baghdad.

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[Search4Truth]

BTTT

[Just A Nobody]

This needs to be sent to the Right Wing Media shows and hosts that did not cover this.

Good idea Tonk. Thanks for the ping.

[terilyn]

There are ads playing here in Minnesota if you can believe it. Minnesota of all places. And they're great!

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_040171013.html

Here's a link to the story and a place to view the commercial. They're paid for by the conservative Progress for America Voter Fund.

[groanup]

John M. Kanaley is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. He serves in Baghdad, Iraq.

And he has more honesty, success in life, integrity, ability and courage than a hundred thumb-sucking news journalists put together.

We salute you sir, stay safe.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Just for the LOVE of it,

...see my Freeper Home Page...

...simply by accessing the "ALOHA RONNIE" on this post.

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[Chena]

BTTT!!!! Hey FReepers, the MSM won't report it but we can! Please read and pass it on.

Thank you, RWR8189, for posting Lieutenant Colonel John M. Kanaley's letter. He stated the situation perfectly and his words need to be heard.

[Valin]

Do yourself a BIG favor
Facts vs. Fiction: A Report from the Front
By Karl Zinsmeister
http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/issues/articleID.18977/article_detail.asp

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.

[Valin]

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[swmobuffalo]

"Facts vs. Fiction: A Report from the Front "

I posted this article elsewhere and had somebody tell me that because American Enterprise is a rightwing group and has Lynn Cheney on the board that this couldn't be considered a source of truth. Too much of a bias!