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The media does not fight the war, the troops fight the war led by the higher commands, the gremlins in the Department of Defense, Pentagon what have you? Not on the battlefield...but they sure do wage the war at home and influence the people's attitudes toward the war....by slanting their reporting...covering only things, negative, bloody, and shocking....ignoring the fact that 80% of the problem is within 30 miles of Bagdad.........ignoring the tremendous successes in the Kurdish region and in the south.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 13, 2007 at 6:32 AM
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scoop,
All your points or well taken and I just wrote to corbin, the media does not fight the war, but they surely give us a skewed view of the thing. We are trying to fight and not kill anyone. I don't think adding troops will help much unless we are going to fight harder and hold on to areas we win in battles.
posted by
sarooster
on January 12, 2007 at 2:51 AM
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Corbin,
I think you are correct. The media does not fight the war, but they surely keep us misinformed.
posted by
sarooster
on January 12, 2007 at 2:49 AM
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Sarooster
Remember the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Questionable
Remember the WMD’s? Questionable none found.
The media does not fight the war, the troops fight the war led by the higher commands, the gremlins in the Department of Defense, Pentagon what have you?
Iraq has similarities as Vietnam.
In Viet Nam which was how it was spelled when I was there, we fought to take a hill, lost many men, took control and then moved on.
Then the bad guys moved back in.
In Iraq the troops fight to take control of an area, win and then move on.
Then the bad guys move back in.
The troops were superior in Vietnam with the best equipment and training. just as they today in Iraq but we were led by idiots just as it has been in Iraq.
NEVER forget this 3 ¾ years of “Stay the course”, Rumsfeld, and a host of mission changes.
Now as we near year 4 a new Sec Def, new generals, more manpower, throw more money at Iraq “Stay the course” is now a “surge”.
The problem is not the media they don’t fight the war blaming them is ridiculous.
The problem is the President, the Republicans, the Democrats, congress the senate yada yada yada.
I will always support the troops and the war on terror but we are so far removed from fighting terror in the mess we are in and nothing is going to change something that has been going on for 100’s of years.
posted by
scoop
on January 11, 2007 at 6:57 PM
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Sarooster
These people have never wanted military confrontations of any kind.....Prior to 9/11, we followed the liberal prescription for dealing with the enemy. All through the nineties, we didn't do anything except chase them down with meaningless indictments.........we didn't deploy at all. And what happened? We lost 3,000 people in two hours, not in four years.....Americans overwhelmingly oppose sending more US forces to Iraq, according to a new AP poll.
A better way to phrase this is ........"Americans are tragically misinformed about the militant Islamic threat!"
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 11, 2007 at 6:07 PM
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