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Posted on 03/20/2008 3:51:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
Washington, D.C. – Five years ago this week 170,000 American and coalition soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines launched Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). When they commenced their attack they were outnumbered nearly three to one by Saddam Hussein's military, yet it took U.S. troops just three weeks to liberate Baghdad. No military force in history has ever gone further, faster or with fewer casualties.
Despite a lightning-fast victory over the dictator's Army, Republican Guards and Fedayeen, the challenge of leaving Iraq better than we found it proved to be daunting and dangerous. Unfortunately, few Americans know what their countrymen in uniform have accomplished in the Land Between the Rivers.
On the way to Baghdad, American and allied forces were accompanied by more than 700 print and broadcast reporters. Once the dictator's capital was liberated, most of the media elites either headed for home or sequestered themselves inside the "green zone." There, they bought photos, footage and "news" from cameramen and "reporters" traveling with our adversaries.
As coverage shifted from the warriors to Washington, political controversy, casualties, and missteps — inevitable in any war — became the focus of “war reporting.” Courageous Americans serving in the line of fire found themselves cast as bit-players in a partisan firestorm. Bright, brave young Americans in the line of fire — not our enemies — became the targets for the mainstream media and powerful politicians.
The New York Times described those serving in our military as nothing but “poor kids from Mississippi, Texas and Alabama who couldn't get a decent job.” A U.S. Senator likened them to those who served Hitler, Stalin and Cambodia's Pol Pot, and a presidential candidate claimed that those who don't do well in school will "get stuck in Iraq." In 2005, after the press had been beating Abu Ghraib...
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EXACTLY, Col. North!
Please Freepmail me to be added to the Ollie North ping list.
Don’t know why but he’d sure get my vote. :)
The Dallas Morning News had a cover story, "Iraq War Five Years" When will it end!
Psst it ended 4 years 11 months ago.
With a degree in History I might sugeest the following headlines:
The Trojan War 3105 years and counting!
The Peolpenisian War 2356 years and counting.
The War of Roses 963 years and counting!
The Jhiadist War. 1353 years and counting!
Got It? Get It! Good!
Won’t he have a special about this on Sunday night?
Good points all, YW.
ALL-NEW EPISODE! 'War Stories Iraq: Five Years in the Fight for Freedom' Sunday, March 23
8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT
Join us as Oliver North and the 'War Stories' team bring you an in-depth look at 'five years in the fight for freedom' in Iraq
Ollie North Ping!
Thanks for the ping, Jaz. Good article, I hope the Sunday broadcast hits on the same points. I intend to watch.
Spot on, Ollie!!!
Ollie bump! Great piece!
“Why didn’t he run for President...”
Perhaps it was the unpleasant Senate campaign of 1994.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7bTYhy8_GE
Because he is too patriotic for the liberals.
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