[arete]

I agree. The press is much too focused on hard news when what really need is more fluff pieces to prove to the world what a truly great nation we are. More pictures of the troops handing out candy bars to smiling Iraqi kids I say!

Richard W.

[mr.pink]

More pictures of the troops handing out candy bars to smiling Iraqi kids I say!

I hope Wolfowitz brought a lot of candy bars with him.

From a Rueters piece:
"But Wolfowitz said in an interview published Friday that no amount of planning could have foreseen the collapse in law and order after Baghdad fell."

Huh?....Too bad Bush won't consider that as an admission of grave incomptence as well as a formal resignation.... and accept it.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Hard news? Hard left spin. Compare the facts from daily CENTCOM briefings and what we now know to be true vs. the mainstream press. Pick a month - April, May, any. Our military leaders are not only careful, deliberate, and trustworthy - they KNOW their words can kill.

The press has been undermining our war efforts from day one by spinning negative and ignoring the progress our troops have been making across Iraq - as well as the number of bad guys they're taking out.

Handing out candy? If you've been listening to the mainstream news and that's what you think our troops have been up to the last three months in Iraq? Case closed.

Our troops are wondering why the folks back home are hearing only the negative. If posting factual info from Iraq based on CENTCOM, DoD, e-mail from the troops and miltiary blogs is being a Pollyanna, then so be it. The troops deserve every bit of credit and support they can get - for REAL work they are doing, unnoticed and unsung.

Those in the press who pounce on every attack, play pro-Saddam propaganda videos, hype every casualty and headline every hateful remark from regime loyalists are what? Good reporters? Anyone can criticize. We need Ernie Pyle.

Our troops deserve a chance to finish their mission without added dissent being sown by the AMERICAN press daily. 4 short months ago they went to war. The critics should be ashamed.

More unfashionable, factual good news:

*The Future of Iraq, in Outline
The Weekly Standard ^ | 07/28/03 | Stephen F. Hayes
*Nobody wants Saddam back
Townhall.com ^ | July 18, 2003 | Amir Taheri

*ONE DAY IN IRAQ 
*Our troops took out FAR more bad guys this week.

“Pessimism never won any battles.”--Dwight Eisenhower

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”--Winston Churchill