[SJackson]

The rest........

The American people must be prepared to let our military call Saddam's bluff and do what is necessary to take Baghdad without having to engage in the hand-to-hand, street-by-street fighting that will grind up American lives. If civilian casualties occur, it is to be regretted. But war is messy and the actions of the Iraqi military in taking shelter behind the innocents leaves us with no choice.

Will American casualties and POWs erode public support for the war? Not in this life they won't. The reports of torture and interrogation of US POWs in violation of international agreements, the sale of military equipment to Iraq by Russia, the discovery of chemical weapons plants, and the trickery of Iraqi units pretending to surrender taking advantage of American good will all simply serve to enrage our people and redouble their determination. The more we see of the Iraqi tactics the more we realize how brutal and inhuman are their leaders and the more focused we are on destroying this corrupt regime.

The American people will not soon tire of this war. Just as they remained focused on the war on terror in the Midterm elections, they will remain with our efforts now. Americans are in this for the long, long haul. They made that commitment on 9-11 and they are not backing down now.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In the remainder of the war, our biggest adversary is likely to be our own humanitarianism and the political atmosphere that surrounds the war...

Indeed. I saw a pMSNBC embedded reporter who said US Marines racing for Baghdad took down the American flag and replaced it with a POW flag from a tank in order to avoid looking like an invading US army. WTF?

Common Iraqi's may not all be Rhodes Scholors but can any of them think our 300,000 troops, tanks, and warplanes are anything but an invading army? It isn't 300,000 boy scouts fer cryin' out loud!

[Conspiracy Guy]

The majority of the media is declaring the war to be one of the most successful failures in modern warfare. They are idiots. The plan is working. The media is the cause of over anxiousness for the speed of the campaign. The Administration and the Military from the beginning said, days, weeks, or months. The ADD media interpreted Days. It is good that the average American is overqualified to read the news for the camera.

[ricpic]

Stick to FOX and you avoid all the muddle headed defeatism.

[Diogenesis]

ABC, Koppel and especially Peter Jennings are always eager to defend Islamic terrorists,
give away factoids of US weapons' limitations even during battle
and always the critical position of US forces to their enemies anytime.

HEY, PETER JENNINGS, WHAT THIS TIME DID YOU SAY
HOW MANY AMERICAN PATRIOTS HAVE YOU HURT TODAY?

[nicmarlo]

Anyone watching television coverage of the war cannot but be astonished at the carping pessimism of many of the anchors and interviewers on all the networks and cable stations. . . . But it is not a defeatism or even an impatience shared by the American people.

Because we have the internet and other means of getting the truth.....

[atomic conspiracy]

I hate to keep harping on it, but the post-60s left-wing media culture is the real enemy. Without their particular set of assumptions and values to shape public opinion, terrorists like Osama bin Laden could never hope to succeed, and Saddam Hussein could not hope to survive. If this were a matter of principle, it would be one thing, even if we feel that the principles are hateful, foolish, and destructive. It is not a matter of principle, it is part of a very specific strategy for increasing advertising revenue. For the full story, read Thomas M. Franks' landmark book, The Conquest of Cool. Did you know, for example, that the counterculture as we know it today, and the hippy movement, were invented at Doyle-Dane-Bernbach in 1963?

[ImpBill]

Morris could only have made his article even better had he ended it thusly:

"The American people will not soon tire of this war. Just as they remained focused on the war on terror in the Midterm elections, they will remain with our efforts now. Americans are in this for the long, long haul. They made that commitment on 9-11 and they are not backing down now" ... regardless on how hard the DemocRAT backing liberal media tries to influence them to do otherwise.

[FreedomPoster]

Index bump

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks to Fox, Sky News and the embedded reporters of both news services, ABCNNBCBS is becoming as irrelevant for real news as the UN is re maintaining peace.

Any conservative watching ABCNNBCBS is helping these lying left maggots. If your cable doesn't have FNC go to Dish or the other satellite system and get FNC. In the meantime watch the cams of these liars, go to Sky News and stay on Free Republic to get the real news.

ABCNNBCBS is an insult to our troops over there and to their families here. They are the Michael Moore Whores of left wing anti American Servicepeople News.