A Piece Every Journalist Should Read
Ralph Peters gives voice to the outrage that many Americans feel toward the reporting of the MSM. For those who think that slanted reporting doesn't really impact the war effort, check this out:
Media bias just might turn the future of Iraq into a disaster that will reverberate for decades. Last week, The Washington Post interviewed Sunni-insurgent sympathizers. They said they "loved" media-creation Cindy Sheehan and took heart from reports of the anti-war movement in Washington.
Hope Cindy Sheehan and the rest of their ilk are proud. Apparently, driving down President Bush's approval numbers is more important than winning the war on terror.
Media bias just might turn the future of Iraq into a disaster that will reverberate for decades. Last week, The Washington Post interviewed Sunni-insurgent sympathizers. They said they "loved" media-creation Cindy Sheehan and took heart from reports of the anti-war movement in Washington.
Hope Cindy Sheehan and the rest of their ilk are proud. Apparently, driving down President Bush's approval numbers is more important than winning the war on terror.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:56 AM
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"Media bias just might turn the future of Iraq into a disaster that will reverberate for decades."
What will reverberate for decades is the tale of a nation so eager to avenge an attack that it rushed to war with a country which, though it had no connection to that attack, happened to be on the president's to-do list from day one.
And if you think Cindy Sheehan and other war protesters are causing us to lose the war on terror, your tether has snapped and you have finally drifted into the stratosphere.
The bipartisan 9/11 commission AGAIN reiterated their warning that four years after the event that supposedly woke us up and galvanized us, the US has still done frightfully little in the way of making significant changes to protect the homeland. Our ports are still open targets. Security for our chemical plants is largely unregulated. (The Republican Congress once again bowed to industry and backed down on proposed "costly" regulations, leaving protocol up to the owners whom one can bet don't live next to the plants.) Airport security upgrades are trudging along, bogged down by "lack of funds."
Is this the same country that rebuilt the Pacific fleet within a year after Pearl Harbor? I know it's the same country that managed to deploy millions of tons of equipment, supplies, and weapons halfway around the world in a matter of months. Where there is an American will, there is a way, money or no money.
But the lame notion that we're taking the fight to the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here continues to be foisted on a public that seems to lazily accept the idea that somehow the war in Iraq makes us safer. It doesn't.
I do not, nor have I ever, advocated an IMMEDIATE pull-out from Iraq. We can't. Bush has ripped open a festering wound that we have no choice BUT to cauterize. But because we are locked into SOME form of "staying the course" doesn't mean that we can't be making huge strides to shore up our defenses here at home.
And it definitely doesn't render moot how we were (mis)led into this deadly boondoggle.
I can see Sheehan's picture on the "Wall of Fame" for Islamic Fascism now. Is it possible John Kerry could be honored as a hero to yet another enemy of the United States of America?
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