Media Spinning of Operation Swarmer

Townhall ^ | 3.20.2006 | W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

[dson7_ck1249]

The latest criticism of the war in Iraq has become so politically manipulative, so disingenuous, so over-the-top that it is undermining a critical cause that we cannot, for a variety of global security reasons, afford to lose...

Let’s look at last Thursday, March 16, the day the Iraqi National Assembly opened in Baghdad and a high-profile "air assault" northeast of Samarra, as an example:

[IrishMike]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598804/posts

[zook]

Throughout the weekend, the MSM was constantly suggesting that the operation could do more harm than good and that it was simply a Bush political ploy.

No institution has betrayed this country more over the past several years than the mainstream media. They are wholly infected with institutionalized anti-Americanism.

[IrishMike]

Also at News Max :


Monday, March 20, 2006 10:03 a.m. EST
U.S. Iraq Casualties Plummet in March

The press is marking the third anniversary of the liberation of Iraq with an avalanche of reports that a sectarian "civil war" has broken out, which, reporters say, means U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are on the verge of failure.

But only a few short weeks ago reporters were measuring success [or, in their case, failure] in Iraq by a completely different standard: the number of U.S. troops killed in combat operations.

So why the shift in focus? It turns out that while the so-called Iraqi civil war has been raging, the number of U.S. casualties has plummeted to less than half of what they were over the previous five months.

In fact, if the current trend continues, March will be the second least deadly month for American GIs since the war began.

[LS]

We've talked about this a lot: it's clear that Operation Swarmer had two objectives. First, it was designed as a "walk through" for large numbers of Iraqi troops operating semi-independently. (A huge success). Second, it was, as all ops are, designed to kill terrorists. In a way, this appears to be less of a success, but in fact it was a huge success, because it shows we are flat running out of enemies to kill. As the line in "Major Payne" goes, "Major, you've killed them all."

We have so vastly depleted their ability to mass any numbers of "insurgents" at all that these operations get a handful anymore. That's good news, and it shows (as I've predicted for some time) there are finite numbers of these loonies, and they are running out of bodies.