Adam McLane

Progress in Iraq

Yesterday I saw on CNN that US soldier fatalities are down 60% since June. In looking at the raw data you don’t have to get out a calculator to see that there are fewer soldiers being killed today than there were 3 months ago. This is good news! And yet the political spin doctors continue to say nothing good is happening in Iraq and we should leave immediately.

Another sign of progress was reported on by the Associate Press this week. The headline reads, “Thousands Returning to a Safer Baghdad.” See, fleeing Iraq would be a lack of progress. Being safe enough to return to your homes is a sign of progress.

Need proof that negativity is just bad press and political games? (Countdown to 2008, 365 days until we vote!)

It’s all about perspective, isn’t it? It’s said that “if it bleeds it leads” in our press. Clearly, in our country hundreds are dying every day and the press doesn’t care. To the contrary, our soldiers are doing their best to stabilize a region, bring democracy somewhere that doesn’t want it, are defending a government elected by the people, and the press questions their every move and decision.

Perspective matters in an election year. With 365 days until November 4th, 2008 we all need to be reminded that every news story has a political purpose. As we saw leading up to the 2004 election, the liberal media will stop at nothing to make their candidate look good and the people they don’t like look like idiots. They’ll talk about smaller issues for 8 hours per day in order to continue to avoid the big issue.

What do you think? Is it all politics or is there really no progress in Iraq with no good news ever going to come?

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2 responses to “Progress in Iraq”

  1. NA Avatar
    NA

    I can’t belive u are comparing accidental and tragic deaths with a war on a country whose people are begging US to leave. I am not sure but take this into prespective… some one coming to your home town and your home with guns, stealing your oil, forcing chaos, treating you like animals and killing you mercilessly.

    US forces are at war… no Iraqi wants to kill them but they went there to kill Iraqis – greed of oil and jewish slavery. No religon permits this, I can’t belive how ignorant you are to history… these people don;t want your kind of democracy or so called freedom… what freedom?

    Gay,Valgur,Atheist,Nucleas cultures?

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  2. adam Avatar
    adam

    NA, first off… this site doesn’t allow anonymous comments. So if you post again, please be a human being with a name and everything.

    Second of all, I think as an American it is good to keep the War in Iraq in perspective to other things going on in our great and vast country. Since the media is using US troop deaths as a reason to leave Iraq with the job unfinished. I wanted to remind my readers that, when kept in perspective, and as tragic as it is, that we are talking a political agenda vs. doing good in Iraq. (Which you obviously don’t agree the US is doing.)

    I’m tired of the media calling our soldiers cowards. 1-2 deaths per day is nothing in comparison to Gettysburg, Iwa Jima, or D Day. It’s all about perspective.

    By the way, you’ve forgotten freedom of speech. The reason we have such freedoms is because of not just the idealisms of American freedom but the men and women who gave their lives to give us that freedom.

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