How The Associated Press Reports On Victory: “US military to abandon Iraqi cities”

• November 15, 2008

This has to be the most absurd Iraq headline since the McClatchy news service reporting the drop in violence in Iraq…by focusing on out-of-work grave diggers.

The headline and opening paragraphs of the article suggest that we’re abandoning Iraqis and fleeing with our tails between our legs (which you’d think the liberals would like since that’s what they’ve been crowing about since John Kerry decided to go anti-war in 2004 and most of them flip-flopped on their war votes). But the truth is that this is part of a draw down that is part of General Petraeus’ overall goals in Iraq:

The U.S. is on track to complete its shift out of all Iraqi cities by June 2009. That is one of the milestones in a political-military campaign plan devised in 2007 by Gen. David Petraeus, when he was the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and his political partner in Baghdad, Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The goal also is in a preliminary security pact with the Iraqi government on the future U.S. military presence.

What’s happening here is victory in Iraq. The media is trying to spin it into defeat.
All the better to keep liberal politicians (up to and including the recently-anointed-as-President-elect Barack Obama) from looking like the utter fools they’ve been all along on Iraq.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array atease

Haven’t we seen that insurgency already coming out of Germany..?

Please let me know how the book ends because I don’t want to watch in real time.

atease
sayanything-2407

The National Media are playing a very dangerous game.

With Russia moving around with possibly threatening actions, how the world perceives the US right now is very important, and with the media so ready to paint the US as weak and ineffective, this is hardly something we wish to project when Russia is lifting its head and growling at us.
2Hotel9

I told y’all this would be the line followed by the press 3 years ago. No surprises here.

Boy Wagon, when you are done cheerleading for the Islamic Terrorists let us know if you have anything intelligent to say. So far? Nada.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Irony: manipulating photos not okay because it “damages the credibility of the information”.

But manipulating information? Well, the AP is just fine with doing that sort of thing.
atease

What should we expect..? For them to tell the truth now weeks after the election, years after the surge.

Their headline if today were 1945 would be US toasts Japs in 2 cities, sues for peace.

atease
Man Train

Who cares that certain actions the United States makes have an adverse affect on groups and individuals. Multiple perspectives in reporting is WAY overrated.

All reports of the war in Iraq should be official Pentagon statements. At least then we won’t have to THINK about the morality of our actions as a nation.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Sorry, not done with the book yet.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

I’m actually reading (or, more accurately, listening to) a Harry Turteldove book about what would have happened if the remnants of the Nazi regime had instituted a post-WWII insurgency in Germany not unlike the insurgency we’ve seen in Iraq.

The parallels are interesting. Book’s called The Man With the Iron Heart. Good stuff.

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