[JohnGalt]

"...we're missing the good news there? I think we are.

I think it's right to report on U.S. soldiers dying. But it's even more right to point out what they're dying for. A liberated Iraq. A freer Iraq. A better Iraq."


Quit thinking with the heard and practice independent thought.

The juxtaposition of the two lines make my hyperbole "how great it is to die for a free Iraq" completely fair game.

It's a patronizing leftwing attitude to believe its good news for US soldiers to die for another country.

[Ann Archy]

Our soldiers fought WWII to free Europe.....did you think THAT was wrong? It WAS in another country hat the people were freed......and in this country people (Japanese) were imprisoned.

[Teacher317]

"...we're missing the good news there? I think we are."
I think it's right to report on U.S. soldiers dying. But it's even more right to point out what they're dying for. A liberated Iraq. A freer Iraq. A better Iraq."
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The juxtaposition of the two lines make my hyperbole "how great it is to die for a free Iraq" completely fair game.

There is no juxtaposition. The "good news" is the free, liberated Iraq, not the soldiers dying. He points out that we already ARE reporting the soldiers dying, but not the "other half of the story" (see the title?), which would be the better lives of the liberated Iraqis, aka, the good news that we're "missing". Ergo, if you would "practice independent thought" and some basic grammar, you would see that the "good news" refers to the unreported part (better life for Iraqis), and NOT to the over-reported part (US soldiers dying). Get it now?

[Cobra64]

It's a patronizing leftwing attitude to believe its good news for US soldiers to die for another country.

I worked on the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964, as well as Ronald Reagan's; America's finest President in my lifetime. It is the liberals who hate this country and gloat at every American death. Furthermore, there are seven generations of in my family who risked death on foreign soil.