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Every day I receive letters from soldiers in Iraq reporting many, many positive things that people don't hear about because the national news media only seems to spotlight what's going wrong. Contrast that with the commemoration last week of the 60th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy to drive fascism from Europe. I wonder how the media would cover D-Day if it happened today instead of six decades ago. Probably something like this.... Americans Far from United on European Invasion High death toll stuns allies; quagmire is feared While President Roosevelt enjoys an election-year bounce in overnight polls from the...

The 60th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy gave President Bush an opportunity to draw parallels between World War II, on the one hand, and the war in Iraq and the broader global conflict, on the other. Astonishingly, this proved controversial. “Many here … emphatically reject Bush's repeated comparison,” the Washington Post's Keith B. Richburg wrote from France. Richburg quoted Helene Luc “a Communist Party senator,” who insisted that “the American army must leave Iraq,” and Abu Mohammed, a Moroccan immigrant who asserted that “there is a big difference” between the liberation of France in 1944 and the liberation of...

The news from Iraq, as far as we can tell, is not good. The war to remove Saddam Hussein was quick and relatively bloodless, but the more ambitious goal of bringing democracy to the Fertile Crescent still seems a long way off. Recent events in Fallujah suggest that it could be many months — years perhaps — before the various Saddam loyalists and foreign terrorists arrayed against the U.S. and its Iraqi supporters are defeated once and for all. As a result of this, criticism of the administration has been mounting. Much of this comes from predictable quarters. Those who...