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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (103466)	7/19/2007 10:55:51 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Surging Through the Defeatist MSM Bubble Posted by Mark Noonan Blogs for Bush There is a bubble in America - contained within it are almost all the MSMers and, of course, all of the critics of the war. Inside this bubble, there is nothing but absolutely bad news about Iraq and thus the increasingly strident demands from the MSM and the critics that we get out...but the surge is working, as I've said...and working so well that even in the MSM, the truth is coming through; from CNN via NRO's The Corner: <<< CHETRY: And, I'm Kiran Chetry. America' top general is in Iraq right now, and he is actually taking a surprising step. He wants to show that things are safe enough that he could actually walk through the streets of one of the most dangerous areas of Iraq in the Sunni Triangle. The streets of Ramadi. That is where General Peter Pace is right now. CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr is actually traveling with him as well...Are you guys actually walking through the streets as we speak, Barbara? VOICE OF BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kiran, it is an extraordinary thing. I hope everyone can hear me. We are absolutely walking through the marketplace as we speak. General Pace just stopped and brought some fruits and vegetables from a dealer here in the market. He is stopping to say hello to every little kid he can find and take pictures with them. What's really extraordinary here is, of course, Ramadi was the real heartland of al Qaeda, if you will, just a few months ago. So many U.S. troops lost their lives on these streets and the battle for this city. Now, today, the streets are quiet. Rebuilding is underway. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary things is they have not have an IED attack on the streets of this city since February.(emphasis added). >>> No IED's in Ramadi for five months. That, dear people, is rather big news - and it knocks out entirely the anti-war argument that Iraq is lost and there's nothing we can do to secure victory. Victory is being secured while the left is busily telling us, every day, that the war is lost. Never in history, I think, has there been such a situation before - that a nation engaged in war and winning, yet has been nearly convinced that all is lost. Never, also, has Napoleon's maxim of the morale being to the material as three is to one been better illustrated - the fact that a few thousand ragged terrorists might yet win in Iraq is testament to the power of the endlessly repeated lie erroding national morale. Remember, the critics started saying that Iraq was a lost cause within a week of the initial invasion - time and time again they have said this or that bit of bad news is the final proof positive that we can't win...but all the while we have been making steady progress and, indeed, are within an ace of complete victory at this moment. Strange world, indeed - fortunately, even in this bizarre modern world, we have the men and women of courage - in our military - which can make good even the idiocy of tens of millions back at home. blogsforbush.com corner.nationalreview.com