Here are a couple of images from Iraq that you are not likely to find on the television news.
I have dozens of pictures like this that the lying media won't have on "their" programs.
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.
Another good post, ss. Keep 'em coming.
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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.
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One can only hope this view is accurate and true. After being lied to all my life by both sides of whatever, I no longer have much belief in what I am told.
parsy, the morally bankrupt.
Peters bump and BFLR!
Here are a couple of images from Iraq that you are not likely to find on the television news.
I have dozens of pictures like this that the lying media won't have on "their" programs.
The electricity system is worse than before the war.
Untrue again. The condition of the electric grid under the old regime was appalling. Yet, despite insurgent attacks, the newly revamped system produced 5,300 megawatts last summer--a full thousand megawatts more than the peak under Saddam Hussein. Shortages continue because demand soared--newly free Iraqis went on a buying spree, filling their homes with air conditioners, appliances and the new national symbol, the satellite dish. Nonetheless, satellite photos taken during the hours of darkness show Baghdad as bright as Damascus.
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If Peters says it's going well, you can be assured that he is saying what he truly believes. There is no political agenda here. He despises Rumsfeld.
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How many Baghdad eyewitnesses do we need to form a concensus?
Bump.
Another viewpoint to consider