Ignoring The Progress In Iraq

IBD Editorials ^ | June 19, 2008

[Kaslin]

Media: Haven't heard much news coming out of Iraq recently? Consider the near silence a clear indication that things are going well there.

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Reports of good news from Iraq since the U.S. and allied forces took down Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003 have been about as common as Bigfoot sightings. The mainstream media have religiously dwelled on the bad news, but have decided that progress isn't worth the coverage. That's left others to fill in the gaps.

One largely unreported bit of positive news is the decline in casualties caused by improvised explosive devices — homemade roadside bombs.

According to the Cybercast News Service, not exactly a member of the legacy press, IED-caused casualties have fallen 89% since the surge began in June 2007. This, even though an additional 30,000 targets — U.S. troops — were sent to the Iraq theater to execute the surge.

The worst month for IED casualties was May 2007, when 84 were killed. In May of this year, that fell to nine deaths, nearly matching the eight killed in December 2007, which happened to be the best month since August and September 2003.

Totals this year are low when compared with previous years, particularly the first part of 2007. Deaths this January fell to 23 from 37 in January '07. In February, there were 18 vs. 25 a year earlier. March 2008 deaths reached 20, less than half of the March '07 total of 54. The decline from April '07 to this April was even larger — 63 falling to 14.

[bray]

Good news in Iraq is Bad news for PravdABDNC.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[nobama08]

ABC had a good story this evening on the progress and stability in Basra.

[Kaslin]

You’re kidding me. What made them change their mind and report something positive?

[mtntop3]

The MSM, it appears to me, knows very well the success in Iraq.

It knows it so well that it is currently coming up with deliberate diversions such as “reports” about “the war criminal acts of the Bush Administration” in the “torture” of prisoners, etc. etc. - all if which are nothing but re-plays of previous “reports”.

There seems to be a coordinated effort with the Dems. on this. Much of this slander against Bush, the Armed Forces and indeed America is outright treasonous. And all to divert from the successes in Iraq and Afghanistan.