Posted on 12/17/2007 4:38:34 AM PST by AliVeritas
Four back-breaking, soul-crushing, nation-rending years later, U.S. troops are at last scoring remarkable successes in Iraq - saving lives, calming strife and fostering the conditions necessary to build a self-governing country from its own rubble.
There are thousands of reasons why the picture has brightened in these past few months. One of them is Army Spec. Pierce Clouden, of Canarsie, Brooklyn, who has been stationed at Camp Taji, northwest of Baghdad, since August as part of the "surge."
"Don't know when I am going home, but it's not any time soon," Clouden told us last week. "I love my job, and I reenlisted for four more years."
That's a soldier.
An American soldier.
A soldier to whom this country gratefully owes much.
As it does to all his brothers and sisters in uniform who have served from the start in Iraq and on the often-overlooked battlefields of Afghanistan.
Among those heroic volunteers are legions of New Yorkers - whom today we honor collectively as the Daily News 2007 New Yorker of the Year.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Answer my question, then maybe I’ll answer yours.
Blame whoever you have to to make yourself feel better about your own role, or lack of one, in the situation in which this country finds itself.
May the blame game give you comfort. And enjoy the company of the BDS-afflicted.
Hate Propaganda a form of agitation propaganda that assigns blame for the problem on a person, race, or nationality. Perhaps the most prolific form of propaganda in the twentieth century. A major goal of hate propaganda is to demoralize the enemy.
Is Bush your enemy?
Who do you consider your friends?
Do you deny that Bush has a communications problem? Do you deny that he has zero information strategy? Do you deny that he could’ve done a better job explaining and promoting his war aims? Who is responsible for those failures? Me?
Who gains from yet one more "conservative" BDS-sufferer?
If that's how you want to live, that's fine, a hundred million Democrats can't be wrong.
I prefer truth and reality.
Of course they can - every single day.
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