Lefties, please, you've got to start believing me here -
the MSM really is on your side and they are quite simply
reporting the news in such a manner as to make the
liberation fo Iraq seem a failure...but it really isn't.
It might make you feel good to hear that President Bush
has failed, but he hasn't...time to get into that reality
that you claim to be based upon.
What Media Bias? XLVIII
Posted by Mark Noonan
Blogs for Bush
Earlier I posted a report pointing out that Iraqis aren't fleeing a collapsing Iraq but are, instead, returning home to Iraq in large numbers. Immediately upon that, some of our lefty commentors posted a New York Times article, part of which went thusly:
<<< In the latest indication of the crushing hardships weighing on the lives of Iraqis, increasing portions of the middle class seem to be doing everything they can to leave the country. In the last 10 months, the state has issued new passports to 1.85 million Iraqis, 7 percent of the population and a quarter of the country's estimated middle class.
...Iraqi officials and international organizations put the number of Iraqis in Jordan at close to a million. Syrian cities also have growing Iraqi populations. >>>
Completely controverts what my linked article was saying - so, is Mark a dunce reading the wrong news, or is the New York Times, once again, just making defeatist nonsense up?
I would take bets and then tell you the answer in a day or two, but I've got a busy week coming up...so, here's a quote from the UN High Commission on Refugees (PDF) regarding Iraq:
<<< There are no exact figures for Iraqis displaced internally and abroad. Ongoing new displacement of population inside Iraq hinders stability and voluntary return of Iraqi population. It is, however, estimated that there are over one million Iraqis in neighboring countries, consisting of those who had fled from the previous regime as well as those who left quietly after the 2003 crisis, currently benefiting from temporary protection or tolerance in neighboring countries. >>> (emphasis added)
There can't be 1 million Iraqis in Jordan if there are only a bit more than 1 million total Iraqis living in countries surrounding Iraq...and you just gotta know that a large portion of the exiled Iraqis are former Saddamites who don't feel safe in a non-Saddamite Iraq. Methinks the New York Times is getting it wrong, as usual. But there is more - the report also notes that there are more than 50,000 non-Iraqis who are refugees inside Iraq. But that is not all - there is even more, as detailed by Gateway Pundit:
<<< Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for the Multi-National Forces-Iraq had this to say about the refugee situation in Iraq just last month:
***Another indicator for civil war would be forced population movements. And we are extremely sensitive to that. We see reports of tens of thousands of families displaced here in Iraq, and we chase down each and every one of those reports. And I'll show you detail in a minute. But we have seen some displacement, pockets of families moving, but not in large numbers....
...And this is very important. We have not been asked for any assistance for displaced civilians. The provincial government has not asked, the local governments have not asked, the national government has not asked. So if there are indeed 36,000-plus families that have been displaced, we're not seeing it.
We indeed move to check every report of displaced civilians. And we were told about displaced civilian camps, and of the 16 that we were told about, we can only confirm the location of four -- one in Fallujah, one in Baghdad, one in al Kut, and one down in Basra.*** >>>
Lefties, please, you've got to start believing me here - the MSM really is on your side and they are quite simply reporting the news in such a manner as to make the liberation fo Iraq seem a failure...but it really isn't. It might make you feel good to hear that President Bush has failed, but he hasn't...time to get into that reality that you claim to be based upon.
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