of the current military operation in Iraq? This is not a loaded question but people always say 'the liberal media only exposes the bad and not the good.'\nBeing the objective person I am, I would ike to see the good. Do you know of any sites or reports that are positive about the progress made in Iraq?
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Here's your link.\n\nBring your lunch, it breaks down everything.\n\nhttp://www.armytimes.com/content/editorial/pdf/030606dod_iraq_progress.pdf
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It's funny how the media has not had more coverage of something like this. It should be the F ing story of the decade at this point. It's truely sad the administration didn't come out and make an official annoucement that there was WMD in Iraq and the war is justifiable. I wonder what the anti republ... excuse me antiwar people would say then.\n\n\nTo the guy above me, that is the most ignorant response I have ever heard. Approval ratings should be low the media has done nothing but report negative things for 3 yrs now on iraq and the adminstration so it's no wonder that everyone thinks everything is going wrong over there. Man nobody even bothers to ask the soldiers anymore how it is going, I believe they are the ones who would be able to give you the best idea. From what I hear morale is high and there are plenty of unreported successes going on over there. \n\nLier? You need to look up the definition of lier.\n\nYou suffer from the crystal ball syndrome.
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Yea...the media reporting all of the death and violence in Iraq is all part of their dirty liberal plot to make ignorant americans vote democrat.  \nDo you people honestly believe this?\nSeriously take your paranoia medication and WAKE UP. \nAs if the headline in the NYT was "Bush responsible for all of the evils in the world"\nMaybe the "liberal" media should have reported something before the war....like there are Sunnis and Shites and they don't like each other.\n\nThere is now a civil war that the US caused.  Any ideas on how to fix it?\n\n\nOh yea you can be paranoid about something....\nThe Dems will be in power soon and we're gonna \n\nLegalize everything\nRaise taxes....especially republican peoples taxes\nDump money into education and healthcare\nFix the deficit...like we did during the last administration\nMake religion illegal\nGet rid of marriage\nKill God...again\ndistribute porn and condoms and sex manuals in public schools\noh yeah and i'm pretty sure we're gonna impeach george\n\nand because we're dirty communists we're gonna drape the country in red and put a hammer and sickle where the stars used to be\n\n\n\nBE AFRAID CAUSE THE COMMIES ARE COMMIN AND ITS ALL CAUSE OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA\nAHHHHHHHHHHH
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I agree 100% with you on this one!!!! There are 20,000 troops in that region, and I have several friends with whom I served with in the past in that region. From e-mail contacts my friends are saying that everything is "hush-hush"!!!! It is the media that has the "lose lips" with bogus reporting, and to win this war against terror most battles need to be kept in the dark!!!
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To shelly and the one who posted just before (Or is it after?) her (The one who posted no name)... I don't see information here from you. I see the talking points of the left. \n\nFirstly, the Iraqi war is not illegal. It was fully supported by numerous resolutions including res. 1441. In addition, NO country should need to ask the corrupt United Nations to defend itself from a maniacle dictator, nor to free 25,000,000 people from a dictator's grasp. \n\nSecondly, NO ONE in this country, either in the administration or in the armed services of this nation support torture. There is quite a difference between that and strong interrogation techniques.\n\nThirdly, anonymous, I resent your statement about people of conscience not fighting in Iraq. I, sir, have family in Iraq, in addition to over 140,000 young men and women who have volunteered to serve this country in its time of need. You dishonor them with your words, and I think you owe an appology.\n\nShelly,\nI know that Bush is not a great orrator. No one denies that. However, considering that he graduated with two degrees, one from Harvard, and one from Yale, I find it a bit unfounded for you to call his intelligence into question, ESPECIALLY considering that he graduated with slightly BETTER grades than 2004 challenger, demoncrat John Kerry.\n\nIn addition, it is the leaders of the left in this country who have demeaned our troops from the beginning. \n\nJohn Murtha, without waiting for investigations to be complete and without giving our men and women in uniform the benifit of a trial accused them of, "murdering innocent civilians in cold blood."\n\nJohn Kerry has accused our men and women in uniform of "sneaking into homes in the dead of night and terrorizing women and children..."\n\nCharlie Rangle, the would-be speaker of the house weighs and means commitee has vowed to cut off funding for our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nI have more examples, but for now, I'll let you chew on those.\n\nNow, let me get back to the question at hand. To me, it does not matter one bit whether it was a botched joke or not. The fact is it came out as an insult to our men and women in uniform. And instead of doing what he SHOULD have done and appologizing for the offense it caused our troops, John Kerry came out and ARROGENTLY said that he appologizes to NO ONE. Then he went back to the tried and tired democratic talking points saying that, "Bush should appologize" to our troops... Talk about a childish remark.\n\nEdit: Grist,\nIf the left is supposedly in support of our troops, why have they worked to undermine this war effort from day one? Why do the left-wing leaders in congress criticize them, accuse them, without benifit of trial or even an investigation? \n\nMark,\nJohn Kerry has worked to undermine the military from thirty years ago. \n\nDon't forget, this is, again the guy who accused our men and women in uniform of sneaking into homes in the dead of night and terrorizing women and children. This is the guy who, while criticizing the president for not putting forth enough funding has said, "I voted for the eighty seven billion... Before I voted against it..."
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Very good link, Pops but you are missing the point!  Liberals say things to garner votes (which way is the wind blowing?) not to make the world safer.  They don't even believe we are in a war, just arrest a few terrorists and haul them into US courts to mete out fines - Poof! - problem ended.  If you read the link below you will get a very different impression of what Bush must deal with (without liberal support).
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There are many articles on Iraq from media around the world.\nI'm unsure what aspect you would like to concentrate on so have included the link below:\n\nhttp://au.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Iraq&fr=fp&ei=UTF-8
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As the failures of the Bush Administration become common knowledge and Republicans are leaving their support behind for the President like rats leaving a sinking ship, these service men and women now feel safe to tell the real story of what's happening over there in Iraq.  I've been seeing them on news programs for a couple of weeks now.  They ARE the front lines, the ones who really know what's happening over there.  I haven't read your answers yet, but it wouldn't surprise me to find some Republicans who will accuse them of being disgruntled misfits, it would fit their party line to accuse them of that, rather than face the truth.\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nOkay, so far I've seen "shady agendas" and someone else calling them "liberals."  Close enough for government work.
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What an astonishing turn of events.  Sure illustrates that this administration has little regard for national security -- only grabbing and holding onto power.  As Bush did not listen to military about troop levels, he didn't listed to his own security czar Negreponte, who didn't want this posted.  Can you believe Andrew Card actually proposed that the real damage was done by the NY Times in reporting the story.\n\nThe brouhaha over John Kerry's unfortunate joke delivery about Bush getting (US) stuck in Iraq got ten thousand percent more coverage than this serious security breach and W is holding the smoking gun.  Go figure.
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The fact that we caught one means we ARE on the right track (with a few detours) and that just proves that the Liberals were....OMG...WRONG!! Just wait though...next move Bush makes , they'll be back bashing everyone and everything they can get their hands on. Personally, they don't know what they're talking about! Bush is acually doing Something while liberals want to sit back here and hide. GO MILITARY!! GO BUSH!!! GO AMERICA!!!
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Because the main stream media is very left wing and biased against the conseritives in this country. They publish only the bad news. Take Iraq, the cover bombings & alleged atrocities and say nothing about the schools being built, GIs interacting with the population and kids, etc.
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dreamer (above) that website is pure bull.  It is a typical liberal website that makes accusations and does not provide any evidence of backing it up.\n\nWhy don't you people start researching things for yourselves and stop believing people like Michael Moore without looking into them.  You will find these leftist liberal socialists are lying to you.\n\nPeople like Sean Hannity, and Rush give you sources which you can verify.  The website you posted has nothing but biased opinions with no facts behind them other than their hatred for Bush.\n--\n\nwyldfire (above) , do you think Bush 'fooled' all these people into believing Iraq had WMD?  Did Bush have a master plan, even before he was in office, to convince all the following liberals that Iraq had WMD?  And furthermore, why would all these liberals believe Bush.  They seem to disagree with anything he has to say.  Check out this link:\nhttp://www.davidstuff.com/political/wmdquotes.htm
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Very badly I'm sad to say.  We should have known this,  and no doubt Bush was told of this possibility by his military.  I don't believe it is republican pride so much as from everyone's being deliberately lied to about why we should  have been there in the first place.  We should have gone to Afghanistan to get Osama, whatever happened to him?  He's probably  sitting in a Paris cafe drinking coffee and reading about Iraq in the paper.  Iraq was a deception perpetrated on the public,taking advantage of the patriotism of the American people.  The shame is that it looks like Iraq will never improve, only serving those who are pro fitting from it, while our troops get wounded and die, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis perish.
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It is interesting how some of the people who responded are going to try to blame President Bush for the fact that the troops feel that they have been stabbed in the back by the media and the Democratic party.\n\nMaybe the Democratic party needs to admit that the troops do not trust them and come up with a way to rebuild their credibility?\n\nIMO the most telling comment about the election is the fact that Al Queda sees a Democrat victory as good for their goals.
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To have something to complain about. For example:\n\nIraq's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was not captured by US forces who heroically brought down Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago this week. It vanished before they arrived.\nIsraeli intelligence reported before the US-led invasion that starting in late summer 2002 Saddam's WMD arsenal was shipped by truck convoy to Syria. Recently, documents seized from Iraq after the fall of the regime were released to the public. Those documents revealed that under the direct command of former Russian prime minister and KGB boss Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Spetnaz forces oversaw the transfer of Iraq's WMD to Syria ahead of the US-led invasion. These reports have been corroborated by Saddam's Air Vice Marshall General Georges Sada.\n\nSo rather than being destroyed or secured, Saddam's WMD arsenal was simply moved from one rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations to another rogue regime with intimate ties to terror organizations.\n\nOf course, American Media will NOT report this, it will prove Bush right, and then they would look stupid.\n\nMichael Moore, thanks:\nFriday, 23 June 2006 \nWhen News Lies \n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES\nMedia Complicity and The Iraq War\n\n\nBy Danny Schechter, The News Dissector\n\n\n\nA new book from Danny Schechter offers an up to date indictment of the role media played in promoting and misreporting the war on Iraq. It is an analysis of how and why the media got it wrong that pinpoints the failures of journalism and the collusion of media companies with the Bush Administration. The author of EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus 2003), an account of the TV coverage of the US invasion, returns with a more comprehensive, updated and insider look at the media complicity that Schechter argues "made the war possible."\n\n\n\n"Most of the anti-war movement focused on the crimes of the Bush Administration ignoring the mainstream media, its far more effective accomplice," says former network producer Danny Schechter (ABC, CNN). "The government orchestrated the war while the media marketed it. You couldn't have one without the other."\n\n\n\nWHEN NEWS LIES includes the feature -length DVD of the prize-winning film WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception). The book will also include the complete script as well as a discussion of the challenges of exposing media with media with a documentary. It chronicles the media war fought alongside the military campaign and the struggle to stand up for truth. \n\nSource(s):\nGoogle it:\n\nSaddam, WMD, Spetsnaz\n\nhttp://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.ph...
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Keep up the good work Mr. Former Military, I support your efforts and our troops 100%.  As the guy who claims to have studied history should be able to tell you, every time we've been to war with no moral high-ground, we've had our asses handed to us.\n\nWe went to war for a lie.  I was there.  I saw the reports both before and after the data cooking.  I saw the first op-order from Rumsfeld come down the SIPR net after Bush took power telling our CO's to "get ready for desert warfare".  Between the shock of 9/11 and the propoganda campaign against Iraq I (as a 98G Arabic Analyst) was just too dumbfounded to speak at the lies being rattled off on TV...I kept hoping my Battalion CO (COL) of my MI unit, the smartest guy I knew at the time, would just get on a phone and call somebody to say "This is BS!"  He never did, not a word, only following orders.  I knew after sitting in the desert that I had to get out of the craziness.  I was lucky and was out in another year.  A buddy of mine just died 3 months ago in Afghanistan.  BRING THEM HOME!
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Ive seen the loose change video. I still support the USA. I admit I must play devils advocate to both sides. I don't believe either. Not the "official story", or "loose change."\nI believe its more likely a combination of the two. Somewhere in between both side's agenda. I think that the government probably has a pretty legitimate reason for falsifying some of the information, but doesn't do well in the cover up department. While much of the rest is just over-speculation driven by conspiracy theorists. \nI think that the war in Iraq is good for our military, but bad for that region. I think that it was implemented under the guise of the search for WMD, but was actually for military position for the long time troublesome Iran & palestine. \n\nTo win a war you need 2 things for certain, power and position. The USA has the power, but lacked the position.\nIraq is that position. Seems clear to me. I do not feel sorry for those who serve the military, they made that choice full well knowing what the outcome could be. I do feel sorry for the Iraqies though, but believe still that the aftermath could be truly liberating for their population. \nOnly time will tell. \nThe only thing that is certain is that the US Federal Government is overwhelmingly corrupt. \nWe have a broken system at home. Therefore we should think incredibly hard about pusshing our system onto other nations.