DONT RE-ELECT ANY POLITICIAN

> The London Times reports...
> What do you bet that when our troops all get sent home that our new
> President is going to take all the credit???? Ready for a shock?
> Below is an article from the London Times about our military.
> Interesting, it is!
> Our media coverage is shameful!
>
> Winning Isn't News!!
>
> By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
>
> ( Iraq : What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media
> didn't tell the American public? Apparently,
> we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've
> defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq .
> London's Sunday Times called it ' the culmination of one of the most
> spectacular victor ies of the war on terror.' A terrorist force that
> once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and
> central regions of Iraq, has in over two years been reduced to a mere
> 1,200 fighters, backed ag ainst the wall in the nor the rn city of
> Mosul .The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most
> unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American
> warfare.
> We can thank President Bush's surge Strategy, in which he bucked both
> Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our
> forcesC2 the re instead of surrendering. We can also thank
> the leadership of the new general he place d in charge the re, David
> Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on
> counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our
> military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and
> convinced the m America was the ir friend and AQI the ir enemy.
>
> Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in
> Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread
> out from the re. Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and
> the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction
> of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000AQI operatives have already
> been apprehended. Sunday Times (London) reporter Marie Colvin,
> traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in
> bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds,
> and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban
> base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into
> the countryside.
>
> Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister
> Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved 'satisfactory' progress on 15
> of the 18 political benchmarks 'a big=2 0change for the bette
> r from a
> year ago.' Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first
> time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American
> forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates , which
> over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of
> debt owed byBaghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow
> Arab state in the future of a free Iraq .
>
> But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this
> good news? As the MediaResearch Center pointed out last week, '
> the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN'sAnderson Cooper 360
> were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks 'that signaled
> political progress.' The war in Iraq has been turned around 180
> degrees both militarily and politically because President Bush stuck to
> his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of
> the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic
> event a big story.
>
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>
> Addendum: The reason you haven't seen this on American television or
> read about it in the American press is simple--journalism is 'dead' in
> this country. They are controlled by Liberal Democrats who would ra the
> r see our troops defeated than recognize a successful Republ
> ican
> initiated response to 9/11. Media probably were holding 'til after
> coronation of BHO in order to give him credit. God bless our troops,
> God bless President Bush and God bless the U.S.A.