American Media Misses the Boat on American Victories In Iraq


If you are unaware that America is on the cusp of a spectacular victory against Al Qaeda in Iraq, its most likely because you read American newspapers and watch American news.  We are closing in on a trap around 1,200 terrorists in Iraq that will effectively put an end to Al Qaeda in Iraq, but this report is oddly absent in American media.  They missed the boat on this one, but the Times of London reports:

After being forced from its strongholds in the west and centre of Iraq in the past two years, Al-Qaeda’s dwindling band of fighters has made a defiant “last stand” in the northern city of Mosul.

A huge operation to crush the 1,200 fighters who remained from a terrorist force once estimated at more than 12,000 began on May 10.

Operation Lion’s Roar, in which the Iraqi army combined forces with the Americans’ 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, has already resulted in the death of Abu Khalaf, the Al-Qaeda leader, and the capture of more than 1,000 suspects.

Along with this good news, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced today that the terrorists in Iraq have been defeated and an aide to General Petraeus "The progress in Iraq is irreversible. There will be "significant reductions in 2009 whoever becomes president."

Somehow these headlines of historic news didn't make any American newspapers.  I wonder why all this was ignored by our media.


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Somewhere at the MSNBC...

....Olberdork, Matthews, and Madowcow are sticking their fingertips in their ears and saying as much as possible...

LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA! LA!

Drill ANWAR

Yes, I'm aware, I read about it in the London Times...

The military WILL BE coming home.....and they WILL REMEMBER how they were treated by the American Press.

There WILL BE Reparations.

This un-American activity will no longer be tolerated. 

The Republican Revolution will not be Televised

Question...

At what point does this obvious dereliction of duty become criminal?  The MSM have enormous power in this country and to openly mislead in this manner is outrageous.  

It needs to be stopped, but is that possible?

I think the term you are

I think the term you are searching for is "recriminations" against the media by the veterans of this war.

Iraqi News

Of course anyone with the intelligence of a pygmy fruifly can see the MSM is not interested in any news that actually reports the success of our fighting forces. The MSM is now openly the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party and they don't think enough people can recognize the difference between omission and the truth to punish them at the ballot box.

We shall see.

John...

 "I wonder why all this was ignored by our media."

Because it won't help them get Obama elected.

 

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Ct,

Exactly.

The truth is insensitive. - Neal Boortz

Actually

I knew this answer before asking the question.  I just wanted to ask it anyway.

I hope that they take no prisoners

our courts are full enough already!

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly!!

Jeff Lebowski

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Ignored the boat

The Lame Stream anti-american media did not miss the boat, they ignored it while drowning in their own stupidity. How many media hypes were layed off or fired due to downsizing in the past month? Hundreds and the remaining are on short notice. Nothing less than BDS (total insanity) could cause them to lie themselves out of a job.  And the circus in congress and the media continues.

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

US military: "10", liberal press: -50

The US and Iraqe military are winning. It is the liberal press that is losing. In fact they are "world class" losers.

Hmmm,as I type this I am in

Hmmm,as I type this I am in our family room and I think about why the American public has not heard the good news.  I look at my wife and son and two daughters, all adults, and they are watching Food Network Next Cooking Star.  In short they really don't care too much, its not on their radar.  So in a nutshell that's why the MSM gets away with not reporting the good news.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

our military has never lost

our military has never lost a war. some of their victories have been thrown away by our politicians with the aid of the msm.

did you know

  • Did you know that 47 countries' have reestablished their embassies in Iraq ?
     

  •  the Iraqi government currently employs 1.2 million Iraqi people?  that 3100 schools have been renovated,  364 schools are under rehabilitation, 263 new schools are now under construction; and 38 new schools have been completed in Iraq ?

    • Did you know that Iraq 's higher educational structure consists of 20 Universities, 46 Institutes or colleges and 4 research centers, all currently operating?

    • Did you know that 25 Iraq students departed for the United States in January 2005 for the re-established Fulbright program?

that the Iraqi Navy is operational?  They have 5 - 100-foot patrol craft, 34 smaller vessels and a naval infantry regiment. that Iraq ' s Air Force consists of three operational squadrons, Which includes 9 reconnaissance and 3 US C-130 transport aircraft (under Iraqi operational control) which operate day and night, and will soon add 16 UH-1 helicopters and 4 Bell Jet Rangers?

  •  
    •  Did you know that Iraq has a counter-terrorist unit and a Commando Battalion?

    • that the Iraqi Police Service has over  55,000 fully trained and equipped police officers? that there are 5 Police Academies in Iraq that produce over 3500 new officers every 8 weeks?

  • Did you know

  • there are more than 1100 building projects going on in Iraq ? They include 364 schools, 67 public clinics, 15 hospitals, 83 railroad stations, 22 oil facilities, 93 water facilities and 69 electrical facilities.  

  •  
    • that 96% of Iraqi children under the age of 5 have received the first 2 series of polio vaccinations? that 4.3 million Iraqi children were enrolled in primary school by mid October?

    • Did you know that there are 1,192,000 cell phone subscribers in Iraq and phone use has gone up 158%?

    • Did you know that Iraq has an independent media that consists of 75 radio stations, 180 newspapers and 10 television stations? that the Baghdad Stock Exchange opened in June of 2004?

 

 

 

Guns and Violence are not the answer but they are one solution to the problem== SARG