Posted on 03/27/2006 4:49:08 AM PST by Cboldt
The Other Side of the Story
A third update on good news from Iraq.
By Bill Crawford
Welcome to another dose of good news about Iraq. (See here and here for more.) After my last report, I received an avalanche of positive feedback about the story of the bullet-proof cross, requesting more stories like that. So I've done that, and at the end of this update there are several more stories about the wonderful men and women in our armed forces. ...
A major theme of my first two updates was that people who actually go to Iraq are far more optimistic about the situation than those who base their opinions only on the reporting of the mainstream media. Governor Kenny Guinn says his belief in what the U.S. is doing in Iraq has been strengthened after a trip there:
Regarding the rampant sectarian violence in Iraq, Guinn said there were "enough out of millions of people that will join together and try to do things you don't want them to do."
"We have gangs in America, don't we?" Guinn said. "And they're pretty brutal in many of the areas." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
You have to read it!
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Read it. Bookmarked the blog. Thanks for posting this. I'm tired of all the doom and gloom stories.
Thanks for the ping, thackney!
(Read it and WEEP, Tread.)
I'm so tired of it, I can barely think straight.
Today has been one of the bad days here, but it doesn't take away all the good and the progress that has happened here. There are bad days and there is still a war.
Not a civil war, though.
Things continue to move forward and the @^#! media still insists on twisting and distorting the truth beyond recognition.
"When you have a situation where a country was a dictatorship, and a very brutal one which didn't allow television reports when people were exterminated and liquidated by Saddam Hussein, when you go from that to being a democracy and you have in the space of 12 months, you have three democratic elections, I don't think things can be said to be getting worse. I think they can be said to be getting better," he said.
'Nuff said.
Good News..BUMP!
He won't read it Allegra!! It'll screw up all his DU talking points.
Stay safe.
No Way!!
They hate US!! It's a Civil War!! I heard Tread the Troll say so!!! Dammit Tread's ALWAYS right!!!!
LOL - Hey at least I was able to type it with a straight face....
Yup. I couldn't possibly say it any better than PM Howard.
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