obama_koolaidI’m onto the game, liberal media. Now that Captain Kool-Aid is president, Iraq is suddenly a safe haven and prosperous. Not because the last president spent nearly six years make tough decisions like liberating an oppressed people from a tyrannical dictator which then enabled them to enjoy opportunities like freedom, choice and democracy - right, not because of that.  That’s because Saddam Hussein was the misunderstood Abe Lincoln of Iraqi, huh. OR is it because reporting on it prior to Jan. 20, 2009 would go against the incorrect and fear-baiting message of “Bush Lied! Kids Died!” Can’t start reporting the truth if it takes away from the ratings that lies bring in. But I ain’t hatin’ the playa. Just hatin’ the game.  Like I said, I’m onto the game.

But even though the trends in decreased violence and prosperity among the Iraqi people has been happening since late 2006, it’s only now that the media is choosing to report on this:

A nationwide poll of Iraqis reveals that “60 percent expect things to get better next year – almost three times as many as a year and a half ago,” McCarthy continued. “Iraqis are slowly discovering they have a future. We flew south to Basra, where 94 percent say their lives are going well. Oil is plentiful here. So is money.”

obama_unicornI’ll give them credit – at least they are finally reporting it.  But it’s a shame that this has been going on for so long and the media refused to acknowledge it. In fact they would go out of there way to report spin Obama’s message of “we didn’t keep our eye on the ball with Iraq.” It’s like when Obama talked about withdrawing combat troops from Iraq during the campaign, but left out the little fact that technically combat troops haven’t been in Iraq since probably 2007. Hey, Unicorn Princess – it was called the SURGE! Look. it. up.

Iraq combat deaths at 6-year low,” USA Today reported on its front page last Wednesday. The story noted that in the first two months of 2009, 15 US soldiers were killed in action – one-fourth the number killed in the same period a year ago, and one-tenth the 2007 toll. The reduction in deaths reflects the reduction in violence, which has plummeted by 90 percent since former President Bush ordered General David Petraeus to implement a new counterinsurgency strategy – the “surge” – in early 2007. Even in northern Iraq, where al-Qaeda is still active, attacks are down by 70 percent.

If the media had devoted even an ounce of the admiration they gave to Obama’s folly of a strategy for Iraq in his NYT op-ed piece, people would start to see the truth about Iraq. It’s unfortunate that Code Pink and their lies about the Iraq war get more playtime in the media than a guy like Michael Yon who’s reporting the truth from the actual battlefield on his own dime. From one of Michael’s entries about the distorted coverage of Iraq during the election:

No thinking person would look at last year’s weather reports to judge whether it will rain today, yet we do something similar with Iraq news. The situation in Iraq has drastically changed, but the inertia of bad news leaves many convinced that the mission has failed beyond recovery, that all Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, or are waiting for us to leave so they can crush their neighbors. This view allows our soldiers two possible roles: either “victim caught in the crossfire” or “referee between warring parties.” Neither, rightly, is tolerable to the American or British public.

Today I am in Iraq, back in a war of such strategic consequence that it will affect generations yet unborn—whether or not they want it to. Hiding under the covers will not work, because whether it is good news or bad, whether it is true or untrue, once information is widely circulated, it has such formidable inertia that public opinion seems impervious to the corrective balm of simple and clear facts.

I’m waiting for the day I hear a far-left liberal admit that Bush is responsible for the victory in liberating Iraq. They’ll only say we should have never been there in the first place.

Even now, with a stubbornness born of partisan hostility or political ideology, there are those who cannot bring themselves to utter the words “victory” and “Iraq” in the same sentence. But six years after the war began, it is ending in victory. As in every war, the price of that victory was higher than we would have wished. The price of defeat would have been far higher.

liberals_listening_skillsBasically this means they know nothing about history, the Carter Administration and the relationship of terrorism to Iran and the Middle East. I mean THERE IS a reason the mission was called Operation Iraqi Freedom and not Operation Get Rid of Iraq Nukes!!!  They choose instead to state their unsupported case, put on earmuffs and then hum loudly to themselves while kicking their legs in order to avoid you convincing them of the actual truth. But, you may say, it sounds like you are describing a child’s temper-tantrum. Yes, unfortunately it’s the same thing.

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