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ONE DAY IN IRAQ
CENTCOM, various ^ | July 7, 2003

Posted on 07/09/2003 7:38:20 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl

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After three months of daily chicken little press coverage on Iraq:
What if the people had been told the daily good news back in April? What if the press had gone to the primary news source on Iraq, CENTCOM, daily and brought our allies and enemies the progress reports - along with the negative reports we heard in our 'hometown' papers and TV news - day by day, week after week, thru April, May, June -> today?  We'd know that our troops are doing difficult work and doing it well.  We would have been celebrating our troops steady progress these past three months - and celebrating the hard won freedom for the Iraqi people. Our enemies would be looking for cover and cowering.
 
What if the press had thoroughly exposed  Saddam's brutal regime?  Would anyone dare shelter his loyalists? Would anyone dare claim that the Iraqi people were better off before our troops removed Saddam? Would Americans support our troops and our efforts in Iraq, no matter the difficulties?
 
We didn't have a national victory celebration for the troops after April 9. Our CIC was critized in the press for thanking the troops. We haven't really cheered our troops as a nation since. The nation of Australia gave their troops a ticker tape parade down the streets of Sydney. Our press gave our troops Hillary Clinton. Our press highlights casualties, critics and Saddam daily. They continue to follow the lead of the NY Times, and ignore CENTCOM (Check the accuracy records of both. March will do). The press is failing America, failing the troops.
 
On March 19 our troops went into Iraq - facing the unknown, knowing Saddam's history. They took out command and control, Saddam's Republican Guard, and were welcomed across Iraq by the vast majority of the Iraqi people. Over 24 million Iraqis - given mountains of weapons by our enemies - refused to use them against our troops. By April 9, the troops had liberated Baghdad. For the next three months, our troops have continued to "perform magnificently", in the words of Gen. Franks - steadily working to stabilize Iraq - after 30 years of oppression and terror and neglect under Saddam's regime. Three months - and the press is still asking "are we there, yet?"
 
Our troops volunteer. They serve in heat and sand far from home and family - on the hunt, and always watchful for the remaining desperate, dishonorable Saddam loyalists and terrorist-wannabes. Some give all.
 
On July 4, 158 Screaming Eagles reenlisted near the Tigris River in Baghdad - with comments like, "You get to reenlist in Iraq with the general, How cool is that?" and "I would have reenlisted anyway without the bonus," "She's glad I'm going to stay in." (wife back home with two children), "When we get back, I'm going to put in for Drill Sergeant," "I'm enjoying the daylights out of the Army. Everyone else should." 
 
To quote CNN's Martin Savidge, "Where do they get young men like this?"
 
Our press has already forgotten, it seems, the character of our men and women serving in Iraq. Our troops are not victims or fools. They know why they serve. While we mourn the fallen and remember their families and friends, we honor the fallen by celebrating the success of their comrades - reporting the daily good works of those 146,000 and more brave American military men and women and our Coalition allies who love freedom enough to risk their lives in Iraq for our liberty.
 
Saddam is NOT coming back.
 
Our troops rock!
 

1 posted on 07/09/2003 7:38:21 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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3 posted on 07/09/2003 8:28:37 PM PDT by Burkeman1 (If you see ten troubles comin down the road, Nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
There's not a lot of excuse for the bottom feeders we call reporters to have failed to pass on any of this except it just don't fit. As the NYT banner says: "We print all the news that fits."
4 posted on 07/09/2003 8:30:18 PM PDT by Adrastus
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
All I can say is thank you for such a great post.

You are so right. The press is absolutely disgusting. I think they all saw the events of April 9th and said to themselves, "We have to do something, anything, to cut Bush down for the Democrats." And all they have done is grossly exaggerate the negative, hoping that they will break the faith of the American people in Bush's leadership and restore themselves as the arbitrators of American political life. May they rot in h---.

5 posted on 07/09/2003 9:09:16 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Ernest_at_the_Beach
FABULOUS POST!!!!!

Ernest, this deserves a MUCH wider read. Please ping your list !

All the wonderful daily good news that our press is NOT reporting !

6 posted on 07/09/2003 10:27:54 PM PDT by happygrl
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To: pierrem15
You are very welcome.

There are a few exceptions:

James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, Opinion Journal, July 9:

Good News From Afghanistan
You hear a lot of complaints from foes of the Bush administration to the effect that it's outrageous that in the three months since Saddam Hussein's fall, America has failed to transform Iraq into Norway. Now and again they also complain about Afghanistan, which hasn't even been transformed into Canada (which Reuters reports ranks a pitiful eighth on the U.N. quality-of-life index).

These criticisms are unrealistic; nation building takes time. A report in USA Today notes that things are in fact getting better in Afghanistan. A reporter visits Istalif, a "mountainside village 90 minutes north of Kabul":

Come on a warm, sunny Friday, the Muslim holy day. Stop at a picnic area in a wooded plateau with a commanding view of the Shomali Plain. Chances are, men such as Haji Zahir Kargar, 50, will be there with friends and family who also have driven up from Kabul.

"Often on Fridays now, we are coming here for picnics," Kargar, a clerk, says through an interpreter. "During the Taliban years? No!" Such entertainment was banned by the fundamentalist militia. . . .

It takes an Afghan, someone who knows that this country was one of the world's poorest and least-developed even before it was devastated by two decades of fighting, to see a picnic as a sign of something larger.

The paper quotes 50-year-old Abdul Qadeer: "I'm optimistic about the future of Afghanistan. Before, Afghanistan was gone. Now it is back."


7 posted on 07/10/2003 5:46:48 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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good info bump
8 posted on 07/10/2003 5:52:40 AM PDT by boxerblues (God bless the 101st and keep them safe)
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To: happygrl
Thank you, happy. It's easy to understand how "Uncle Walter" sold out America and the troops during the Vietnam War. My city has three local TV stations dedicated to local government, mostly public school info, yet we have no access to the live CENTCOM and DoD briefings. The left absolutely knows the power of the 'pen'. Thank goodness for FR and the internet.
9 posted on 07/10/2003 6:29:54 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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To: *war_list
*A note of thanks to those who serve [9-11 widow in Iraq - moving!]
Air Force Link - thru DefendAmerica.mil ^ | 6/30/2003 | Christy Ferer

10 posted on 07/10/2003 7:43:34 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
We always hear about the "warlords." But we don't hear much about the almost 2 million Afghans who voted with their feet and returned to home to Afghanistan.

Thanks to the US armed forces.

11 posted on 07/10/2003 8:01:41 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: pierrem15
BTTT
12 posted on 07/10/2003 8:19:49 PM PDT by prognostigaator
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To: pierrem15
If it isn't a slam against our military/President/country then why emphasize it?! ...Thanks to all who serve.
13 posted on 07/11/2003 1:52:31 AM PDT by MEG33
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To: pierrem15
Well we can't have any good news in the mainstream media. No body would be interested in that. /sarcasm
14 posted on 07/11/2003 7:16:32 AM PDT by Valin (America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.)
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To: Valin
The DNC - Carville, McAuliffe, Daschle and Gephardt - wrote a talking points memo for the press PRE-WAR.
 
The Democratic Party members agreed.
 
The press then did the DNC'S bidding.

They still do.

 
The TRUE Capitol Hill Blue story the PRESS IGNORED:'Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush'
FR - thru Capitol Hill Blue ^ | January 6, 2003 | DOUG THOMPSON

15 posted on 07/11/2003 8:31:58 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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Well I missed this ping!

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16 posted on 07/11/2003 4:24:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Iran Mullahs will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Post of the day, IMHO. Great job.

Too bad the lamestream press won't report the stunning efficiency our troops are using in eradicating the scum over there.

17 posted on 07/11/2003 4:41:01 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (Dues paying member of the vast right wing conspiracy)
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Thank you, Sir. This is for the troops. Forwarded to the press.

+ Americans who care.

18 posted on 07/11/2003 7:52:06 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (We're in a global war on terrorism..If you want to call that a quagmire, do it. I don't.*Rummy* 6-30)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thanks !
19 posted on 07/11/2003 11:18:30 PM PDT by america-rules (I'm one proud American right now !)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thank you !! Why isn't the press reporting *any* of this stuff ?
20 posted on 07/11/2003 11:23:48 PM PDT by ChadGore (Kakkate Koi!)
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