Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!
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"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 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 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 around180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president 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.
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Did you see the record taxes ExxonMobil paid in the third quarter? ?
Did you see the record taxes ExxonMobil paid in the third quarter? You didn't see that? You didn't see that? You didn't see the story on the record taxes ExxonMobil paid? You didn't? What did you see? Oh, you saw a story on their record profits? Well, I saw that, too, but that's not the story. "ExxonMobil Posts Biggest US Quarterly Profit Ever." Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a $14.8 billion profit in the third quarter, largest ever. Their taxes were $11.3 billion. That's a record tax payment for ExxonMobil in one quarter: $11,327,000,000. By the way, with the plummeting oil price their fourth quarter ain't going to be anywhere near $14.83 billion. Mark my words. Talking about how we don't know what to... Well, I know what to believe, don't misunderstand. I know. I know when the media is lying, but the average consumers of news, you don't know what to believe, you can't get a gut feel for anything; nothing is true anymore. [snip] Exxon's taxes this quarter are $11.3 billion. People are saying, "Their profit was $14 billion!" The tax was $11 billion. The bottom line is Exxon is paying a whole lot of taxes on whatever profits they are making.
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Obama Fan
A teacher asked her 6th grade class
how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is,
but wanting to be liked by the teacher,
all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.
The teacher asked Little Johnny
why he has decided to be different,
again.
Little Johnny said,
'Because I'm not an Obama fan.'
The teacher asked,
'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'
Johnny said,
'Because I'm a Republican.'
The teacher asked him why he's a Republican.
Little Johnny answered,
'Well, my Mom's a Republican,
and my Dad's a Republican,
so I'm a Republican.'
Annoyed by this answer,
the teacher asked,
'If your mom was a moron,
and if your dad was an idiot,
what would that make you?'
With a big smile,
Little Johnny replied,
'That would make me an Obama fan.'
how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is,
but wanting to be liked by the teacher,
all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.
The teacher asked Little Johnny
why he has decided to be different,
again.
Little Johnny said,
'Because I'm not an Obama fan.'
The teacher asked,
'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'
Johnny said,
'Because I'm a Republican.'
The teacher asked him why he's a Republican.
Little Johnny answered,
'Well, my Mom's a Republican,
and my Dad's a Republican,
so I'm a Republican.'
Annoyed by this answer,
the teacher asked,
'If your mom was a moron,
and if your dad was an idiot,
what would that make you?'
With a big smile,
Little Johnny replied,
'That would make me an Obama fan.'
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