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The London Times reports...

What do you bet that when our troops all get sent home that our new President is going to take all the credit???? Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is!

Our media coverage is shameful!

Winning Isn't News!!

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

( Iraq : What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq ..

London's Sunday Times called it 'the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.' A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has in over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare.

We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering. We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.

Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there. Now, in 'Operation Lion's Roar' the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended. Sunday Times (London) reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.

Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved 'satisfactory' progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks 'a big change for the better from a year ago.' Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.

But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, 'the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks 'that signaled political progress.' The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because President Bush stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.

Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.

Addendum: The reason you haven't seen this on American television or read about it in the American press is simple--journalism is 'dead' in this country. They are controlled by Liberal Democrats who would rather see our troops defeated than recognize a successful Republican-initiated response to 9/11. Media probably were holding until after coronation of BHO in order to give BHO the credit. God bless our troops, God bless President Bush and God bless the U.S.A.

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I am not a huge fan of Bush or of religion (I was thinking about leaving the "God bless" part out at the end) but there is a huge information war going on right now for the American public's attention and we all need to get the facts out to people so that they can make their own decisions. Right now too many people are just following ABC NBC and CNN off the cliff like lemmings.

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I am not a huge fan of Bush or of religion (I was thinking about leaving the "God bless" part out at the end) but there is a huge information war going on right now for the American public's attention and we all need to get the facts out to people so that they can make their own decisions. Right now too many people are just following ABC NBC and CNN off the cliff like lemmings.

That Is one thing this Country is doing, leaving our Lord and Savior out of the things we do.., I believe this is one reason we are suffering so much..

This Country was founded on God and Now people even believers are forgetting this. This is why our country is suffering so much..

So GOD BLESS THIS Country. And May God Bless our President not matter who he is...God has the only plan...!!!

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

:dunno

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

The facts are if they did not beleive then why did they have it put on the money.. Because it was from the Cathlic church..

English .....

Hello.. you are not right ....

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

The facts are if they did not beleive then why did they have it put on the money.. Because it was from the Cathlic church..

English .....

Hello.. you are not right ....

Just to add some info..

http://www.afn.org/~govern/Christian_Nation.html

Also as noted in article.. a lot of the forefathers were members of Churches... I am not saying all..

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

The facts are if they did not beleive then why did they have it put on the money.. Because it was from the Cathlic church..

English .....

Hello.. you are not right ....

I have NO idea how somebody can say our great country was founded by leaders who shunned religion!!!

God is the reason you're here today! God is everywhere. Whether you see it or not!

And the war is definately NOT over. Next month I am putting my boots on my beloved U.S. soil for the last time this year.

We have made a huge improvement in the Middle East and be proud to help the less fortunate!

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This country was not founded in religion in fact most of our fore fathers shunned religion because they saw the perils of it. I am not an atheist, but when you say God most people attach a religion to it and that's why I didn't want to put it in there. Government should not have religion in mind when making decisions. It should only have it's citizens in mind. But the point remains that the info people are getting from these pseudo news organizations is at best incomplete.

The facts are if they did not beleive then why did they have it put on the money.. Because it was from the Cathlic church..

English .....

Hello.. you are not right ....

I have NO idea how somebody can say our great country was founded by leaders who shunned religion!!!

God is the reason you're here today! God is everywhere. Whether you see it or not!

And the war is definately NOT over. Next month I am putting my boots on my beloved U.S. soil for the last time this year.

We have made a huge improvement in the Middle East and be proud to help the less fortunate!

AMEN Brother. Stay safe and strong and thanks for what you do for our country :dunno

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