Posted on 03/13/2006 9:35:40 PM PST by smoothsailing
Peters is a very smart man and he isn't bias one bit. He believes Rummy should get the boot big time. If you read his book he lays out quite clearly how Rummy used Iraq to further test his theory of a lighter, cheeper, faster, and less deadly war and refused to change course or even admit there was an insurgency for months and months. Rummy is a good man, but his stubborness and pride are his biggest flaws.
I'd love to think that all of this is a big mistake on the part of the media. However, I was a reporter and editor for 15 years, and I know better. Most of my former comrades (to use a loaded term) are advocates interesting in using the media to make the world a better place - a mission that is difficult with a person like Bush in power and the Republicans ascendant. The solution? Undermine when you can. Delegitimize those in power. Always offer the progressive solution. Offer leftist opinion as revealed truth. I've seen it in person. It doesn't surprise me that it is happening as the media covers the war in Iraq. My fear is that the media will succeed in their mission, which will produce a backlash like no other in our country's history. It would be profound irony that the people who want revolutionary change are the first ones targeted in the counter-revolution. Hopefully, all this will work out in America's favor. I hope.
Yet another testament of what's really happening in Iraq. We can only hope the MSM starts picking these accounts up and putting them out.
Satan!!!!
:-) Just kidding, redpoll.
Another good post, ss. Keep 'em coming.
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Rummy had the right idea, he just tested it on the wrong war.
Or as he would say; "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you want."
We're catching up now and in the end Rummy's vision of our future force will be a sound one.
Why insinuate your special knowledge about the Col's disagreement with his superiors? That was'nt the gist of his comments here.
If you've been around the military any time at all, contrary ideas about how to run things is the priviledge of all officers. These guys happen to be our best trained professionals and are entitled to theitr contrary opinions.
The Col. deserves our gratitude for his years of service and his forthright effort to provide an informed point of view.
(Smoothsailing gets "attaboys" for his consistent vigilence and service to all of us.)
The MSM doesn't have ONE JOURNALIST willing to go out and do the hard investigative work necessary to bring a more realistic story about Iraq. As long as they pay the 'stringers' to go out and gather news for them while they sit in the green zone sipping margaritas.
I hear the more horrific the story the more the stringers get paid. Is it any wonder all we get is death and destruction?!
The media has failed not our soldiers. Most of Iraq is still stable, children play in the streets and wave happily to our soldiers. I'd like to see one report with happy smiling Iraqi faces. Maybe I've missed them but I've seen the pictures from the field, and the grateful faces. If we leave Iraq before it is ready and it falls into civil war then one thing will have been made true, it will be like Vietnam and we will once again have failed like we did in Saigon when we left thousands of innocent people who had faith in us and trusted us to be murdered. If we allow the cowards in the media to drive us from our mutual duty we shall reap the rewards of that cowardice if not in blood but our very souls.
Have you read any of Peters books?
His last one New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy is the one that deals mainly with the Iraq War and its aftermath.
If you want a very good explination of things that were done right and things that were done wrong you should read that book.
They'll get neither.
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The only reason they got their Vietnam is because conservatives weren't organized at the time. That has changed and conservatives need to be emboldened by that fact and quit falling back into the trap of expecting the media to be fair. We make our own fairness by opening our mouths and refusing the left safe habor in our silence.
You've misse the point of the post.
...by a mile.
BTTT
What we really need is a good scouring of the media by our soldiers.
Point out the frauds and anti-American, anti-military types and let barracks justice prevail.
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