Thanks for the rant. We all expect the MSM not to cover this good story but the true disappointment is I haven't heard a single Repub talking about this either. They should be taking every chance they can to get this sort of story out to the public every single day.
They rather let the left and MSM define Iraq and the entire WOT for America.
Historically we've let the other side define the debate since I can remember.
This time it actually seems like the RNC, GWB, etc. believed that simply doing what was necessary, having a good economy, using diplomacy (like they'd been told to do), and 'bipartisanship' would bring in the vote. They believed that the voters actually would vote on what was best or what what was clearly evident to the administration. Yes, it WAS a national vote and not a local one, despite what some chose to believe.
No need to go to any lengths to disprove what the left was saying over six years & not just the week before election. Instead, GWB campaigned by turning away from every asinine charge made against his administration and tried appeasement at home while fighting against it in Iraq.
Too bad people don't vote based on what IS, they vote on what has been hammered into their heads and on what they FEEL should be.
It wasn't a quagmire before, the voting populace made it an impending quagmire because that's what SHOULD follow from a war they would rather not face up to.
At the time, no one believed that JFK's 'stuck in Iraq' comment actually was part of the dem voters' core belief....Americans have created 'another Vietnam' and done it on purpose.
Sorry, I guess that makes it two rants, maybe I'll settle down by Turkey Day...that seems appropriate.