God Bless Our Troops
Posted on 08/23/2005 11:57:05 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
WHAT was the big "Iraq" story in August? Which vital issue got the most air-time and ink? The camp-out of a sad, tormented woman who had lost her son, her marriage and her judgment.
The media pounced on poor Cindy Sheehan in an anti-Bush, anti-war frenzy. The disappointment was obvious when she decided to go home.
What should have made headlines? It would've been nice to see more attention devoted to the complexity and importance of drafting a new constitution for Iraq. But my nomination for the "Greatest Story Never Told" is a quieter one: Locked in a difficult war, the U.S. Army is exceeding its re-enlistment and first-time enlistment goals. Has anybody mentioned that to you?
Remember last spring, when the Army's recruitment efforts fell short for a few months? The media's glee would have made you confuse the New York Times and Air America.
When the Army attempted to explain that enlistments are cyclical and numbers dip at certain times of the year, the media ignored it. All that mattered was the wonderful news that the Army couldn't find enough soldiers. We were warned, in oh-so-solemn tones, that our military was headed for a train wreck.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Rush read this today. Great column.
Bump!
Not only is the good news not reported, I don't think there is any particularly disastrous news to get down about. Casualties are a tragedy but it borders on the hysterical to act as though some loses out of 130,000 deployed means a war is being lost. Iraq is relatively secure and it seems we are there mostly to prevent what might happen if we left too soon. A few truck bombs blowing up civilians is not going to collapse that country. One has to ask, what motivates people to demand withdrawal as though some horrible cataclysm is occurring?
Wierd. Just yesterday, the MSM was going out of its way to say that enlistement goals fell short for the year.
The unreported story: over 30,000 terrorists have been either killed or locked up since March 2003 because of our Iraq Liberation!
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"One has to ask, what motivates people to demand withdrawal as though some horrible cataclysm is occurring?"
Well, we can start with the MSM, liberal politicians and Socialist organizations and go from there.
Correction: My article in yesterday’s paper (“The Real Iraq News”) contained a substantial error: The new-enlistment rates I cited were wrong. The Army is still falling short on new enlistments. I deeply regret the mistake. But the numbers on the inspiring re-enlistment rates of our combat soldiers — the central issue of the column — were correct. I stand behind every word I wrote about the patriotism, commitment and valor of our troops. — RALPH PETERS
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