VICTIMS and LIBERATORS vs. VILLAINS and LIARS

various ^ | August 9, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The press is failing our troops, our country, the Iraqi people.

 

People have to choose who to trust:

1) Those who continue to throw stumbling blocks in the path of our troops daily:

using civilians as human shields
military units dressed in civilian clothes
fake surrender ambushes
arming with chemical weapons
systematic rape and torture
execution and (possible) castration of POW's
forcing soldiers to fight under threat of death to their families
placing military targets in hospitals
using ambulances for military transport
suicide bombings
attacking their own population
gassing their own population
cutting off water to their own cities

vs.

possibly bombing a market by accident

Guess which draws more protest from the media, the UN and Amnesty International?

Mar. 27, 2003

2) Or we can look at facts backed up by those who know careless words can kill, and who risk their lives for strangers: 

8 Analysis of US Casualties in Iraq by Week and Month - post Baghdad Liberation Day
        *** Quagmire? Nonsense! ***- 8/8/03

8 SSG Washington - 'an Army Staff Sergeant escorting convoys and chasing down bad guys in Iraq' -  (who links Free Republic to his website), a.k.a. Chrome Dome:  http://www.chromedomezone.com/.

8 The Real Situation in Iraq - Chief Wiggles - Blogging Straight from Iraq  | 08/06/03

8 The Straight Scoop - A Seabee's First Hand Account of Life in Iraq - Defend America | Sr Chief Art Messer

8 'Screaming Eagles' Brigade Commander Praises Troop Conduct ["doing a better than great" job] - DoD | 8/08/03 | Gerry J. Gilmore

8 Last week in Iraq - a recap of our military's outstanding security efforts 

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The last time the Iraqi people dared rise up against their terrorist oppressors, they were gassed and murdered by the tens of thousands. The Iraqi people need to know WE are not going to abandon them this time. This administration and these troops have been working to reassure the Iraqi people from the beginning.

Even knowing the history of the Iraqi people and the difficulty of our mission, the press sows fear and dissent in Iraq daily.

Imagine if America's press took America's side? If the would be defenders of the downtrodden actually investigated the bad guys?  Our press could help us find those who mass-murdered thousands - or track down one Ba'athist loyalist intent on murdering an American soldier - a soldier who's own courage and sacrifice gives reporters from every civilized nation the freedom to criticize even him. Our press could help save lives, promote freedom, tell the truth about America. They could help heal a nation. Instead, they side with the oppressors, terrorist-appeasers and those who want to weaken America on the world stage.

Look closely at the daily press reports. Remember the press before the war. Remember who and what the press chose to promote (Ritter, UN, Chirac) and defend (Galloway, Saddam Hussein, Susan Sarandon).  Remember their attacks on the President, their pro-UN stance, their promotion of the ANSWER rallies - before France and Germany used the organized protests as an excuse to jump ship.

Look closely at those who want America to fail in Iraq. Look closely at the left.

The press said American troops couldn't topple Saddam and liberate Iraq without a mass-humanitarian-environmental crisis. WE DID.

No apologies followed, not even a simple thank you to those in harm's way.  

The press has already succeeded in convincing much of the world that it should be a breeze to stabilize a nation brutalized and neglected for over 24 years in less than six months. Ludicrous! Has there ever been a comparable attempt to free a nation - or such a success story?  The prevention of 5000 deaths a month at the hands of Saddam's regime matters, as does the freedom - messy or no - of an entire population. Find a similar effort where the liberators worked to establish stability for the people of a nation after they defeated a tyrannical ruler, and where these liberators then worked to make sure the people of the nation ruled their own country - unlike the many who sow dissent and deceive the world daily for personal power's sake.

If the wilful, selective, daily negative reporting by partisan propagandists, the daily drip, drip of defeatism by deceitful anti-Bush activists who ignore the many daily successes of our troops in Iraq, ignore the victims of rape, torture and terror - while handing their mighty pens to the rapists, torturers and terrorists - isn't a crime against humanity, what is???

The troops in Mosul get their news about Baghdad from the NY Times, CNN and The Observer, too. It absolutely effects their perception, gives false hope to their enemies - endangers their lives.

The pre-war-war-post-war "news" coverage re. Iraq has proven that this war is not simply about Saddam loyalists vs. the freedom-loving Iraqi people, it's about real Iraqi VICTIMS and US-Coalition LIBERATORS vs. VILLAINS (Saddam loyalists, terrorists,criminals) and LIARS (press, pols, ambitious tyrants).

CENTCOM: The primary news source on Iraq.

 

*COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE

*+ KEYWORD 'SECURITY'

*COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY

*+ KEYWORD 'HUMANITARIAN'

*CENTCOM BRIEFINGS

Tales of Saddam's Brutality [lengthy, graphic]  S

VOICES OF FREEDOM
Quotes from the grateful Iraqi people. Y

 The talented journalists who put out the powerful lies daily around the world could do a far better job of putting these facts together, but they're busy playing their same old game of deceive, distract, divide in a deliberate campaign to defeat our efforts in Iraq. 

 

This isn't a game. Real lives are committed to a noble and difficult mission. The future of real families and communities - a whole nation is at stake. Those who planned, carried out, cheered on or excused the murder of thousands of innocents on 9-11 are paying attention - along with those who fought and prayed a lifetime for freedom in Iraq.

 

Bypass the press. Show friends and neighbors the CENTCOM detailed logs. The reaction usually is, "why weren't we told about this?" Multiply the response by over 150 reports over four months....and what the press is doing to our troops is far worse than the heat, sand, or facing some of the nastiest lowlifes in history. The troops can handle that. They can do little about a press determined to misinform the world - except to tell their side and hope someone reads their e-mails, listens to their stories - and passes them on.

 

The very least we can do for our troops is to tell the world about their successes. We can remind our misinformed neighbors that during our worst month in Iraq post-BLD (Baghdad Liberation Day), July, we lost 39 troops - 28 to hostile acts - in a nation the size of California, with over 24 million newly freed Iraqis - 5 million in Baghdad alone. Remind them that during our worst month in Iraq,  those 39 troops along with their 150,000 or so honorable comrades on the ground across Iraq were involved in major aggressive operations - protecting the civilized world by removing multiple bad guys, bad guy weapons, and funds across Iraq. Remind them that this worst month included the revenge of the supposed Big Bad Ba'athist loyalist scum after our troops took out the two Hussein sadist-spawn. Remind them of who's living in Saddam's palaces, who's the best-trained, best-equipped and best and brightest fighting force in the world. Ask your friends why the press continues to insult our troops and hype Hussein, to terrorize the Iraqi people and aid our enemies by implying that Saddam Hussein has any hope of a future in Iraq.

 

Saddam is not coming back.

 

We are not leaving until the Iraqi people have a Constitution of their own and have elected leaders of their own choosing.

 

Anyone promoting an opposite agenda, a 24/7 picture of gloom and doom while pretending to care about freedom, human rights and national security is defrauding the world. The press demeaned our troops, idolized the bad guys and lied to the world during Vietnam as well - and Communism spread throughout Asia - with the resulting untold deaths and oppression.

 

We now have access to the primary news sources through the internet. We can fight for our troops and the Iraqi people on the homefront by giving them a voice.

 

8 Unapologetically Pro-Coalition News Links 7

 

 

Repeat, repeat, repeat.....

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent work!

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[DoctorZIn]

ping

[KineticKitty]

Thanks for alerting me to this, and all of it's great links. This will be good reading when I have the time.

[MHGinTN]

The vast gob of 'press' work is designed with one thing in mind, prevent this administration from being perceived as successful in office ... and the presstitutes will sacrifice anything and everything to accomplish that for their favored socialist societal engineering democrats. The purpose of our current press is counter to the health of the nation, our troops, or peace through strength in the world.

[firewalk]

bttt

[BOBTHENAILER]

Remind them of who's living in Saddam's palaces, who's the best-trained, best-equipped and best and brightest fighting force in the world. Ask your friends why the press continues to insult our troops and hype Hussein, to terrorize the Iraqi people and aid our enemies by implying that Saddam Hussein has any hope of a future in Iraq.

You can count on it.

My computer screen at the office has the picture of our troops relaxing in one of Saddam's palaces after taking it. Classic picture of some classic troops.

[Old Sarge]

Ping thanks, RC.

I do wish more people would see such things. Thank the gods for the Internet.

[Grampa Dave]

Bumping your great work to balance out the lies and omissions of the leftwing mediots.

[facedown]

bump

[MJY1288]

Fantastic post,

Thank You!

[radu]

Great links!! Mass e-mailed!!

It's so nice to hear things "straight from the horse's mouth", too, as in Chief Wiggles' Online Journal, for example.

THANK YOU!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, Ernest. The Observer article ticked me off last night. The left and their dishonest activist groups pretending to speak for the rest of the military....sowing dissent and dividing the nation - as usual - and during wartime after 9-11.

Some Americans go into the service to advance their political careers. Fighting to defend our nation? If they can work more international mischief and gain more political clout through the hapless UN, forget US sovereignty.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Well said. We need to spread the news ourselves. The press missed 9-11, insulated as they are behind those Utopian dreams. The rest of us care that our troops are being threatened and that the global socialists who made dirty deals with Saddam Hussein are rejecting the fragile new Iraqi council - based on lies from the partisan press.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you, BOB!

[lepton]

This seems relevant:

AP dissects Powell's case for war, point by point

optimistically_conservative post on Iraqi dead.

[MizSterious]

The thing is, the left doesn't care how many people die, as long as they can get back in power. That is my definition of pure evil. They know full well their actions are going to cause a lot more deaths and misery, in this country and around the world. It just doesn't matter to them.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You're most welcome.

I do wish more people would see such things.

It hurts to both listen to the 'caring' Katie and Dan and listen to the troops. Hard to handle the truth - that America's press is not on America's side. The press is a DNC global socialist PR machine today. Say goodbye to the morning paper, the friendly local news anchor, the familiar, sweet-sounding talk show hosts.

Throughout the war, the DOD, not the press, proved to be trustworthy.

It's horrifying that a few reporters controlled the info during Vietnam. How can anyone pretend the press doesn't have a profound influence on policy, attitude, culture? Saddam was so dependent on his Iraqi Info Ministry to control the people of Iraq he protected it even more than his military.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Welcome. Thank you, MJY.