Why aren't we told this???

private | 3/16/08 | me

[AndyJackson]

Why aren't the positives ever spoken about?

Because actually it took several reorganizations and changes in military leadership before there were real positives of this kind. Counterinsurgency is much more than killing bad guys. It is creating the circumstances where the local community sees their lives as being substantially better because you are there; it is making sure that you don't create new bad guys faster than you kill off the old ones, and if you are really good, bad guys begin to realize that their lives will be a lot better if they cooperate and they become good guys.

We had to get the neocon politicals out and get genuine professionals in before this could happen. It is embarassing that Republicans were as bad as democrats are. Political loyalty and working on a compaign are no subsitute for knowing what you are doing.

[uncbob]

Because our lazy President (whom I voted for twice) is both incapable of articulating this to the American people through the media headwind (though other Presidents have been able to get their message out he is too incompetent at putting words together), and too complacent to hire someone who can!

Drives you crazy doesn't it

[jdm]

?Good news!?

[YOUGOTIT]

Your permission to use as part of a letter to the local left-wing pro terrorist paper.

[navyguy]

You got that right.

This Administration has been totally incompetent in fighting the PR war against the media. He should have been pounding details like this list from DAY 1.

Naked stupidity... and it comes from the fact that this administration is totally out of touch with the average American. Congress is as well.

[fanfan]

You’re right!

It’s Allegra’s fault.

Thanks Allegra!

:-)

[Pikachu_Dad]

I thought I was going to get positive news from that post... and all I got was Question(marks).

[John Jorsett]

This is what!? Captain James T. Kirk’s writing!? must!? look like!?

[econjack]

Well said...

[Rapscallion]

Thank you for posting these facts.

Can you explain why our President has not enumerated these gains in talking to the American people? President Reagan would have done so.

[restornu]

You should have put (Iraq) in the title

Thanks anyways!:)

[Enchante]

The treasonous MSM and Demagogues want us to LOSE Iraq to terrorists, suffer far more terrorist attacks, and watch international jihad grow again..... all so that our treasonous scumbags can “take back this country” as they like to put it. From the New Deal onward the ‘Rats felt they rightly dominated this country’s politics and media culture. They are enraged that some of their “progress” toward universal socialism is occasionally checked.

[Republic of Texas]

Actually, this is one case where it actually is Bush’s fault. His failure to lead the PR war has hamstrung his administration every step of the way.

[BerryDingle]

Okay, now you can lighten up a little on the "cowbell"

[Allegra]

Hey if all of the bad stuff W's fault why can't the good stuff be Allegra's "fault".

LOL - works for me.

Actually, this report is from late '05 or early '06.

Most of these numbers are way up now. Of particular note, the police academies and the number of police being generated increased significantly last year alone. Construction projects are spiraling up and government employees in one ministry alone increased by 300,000 personnel (nationwide) just in 2007.

This country is on the MOVE. It's booming, if you will pardon the very, very bad pun. ;-)

[Disambiguator]

Your post leaves me with a lot of questions.

;^)

[Uncledave]

That’s great and I hope and expect that Iraq’s oil revenues are paying for most of this.

[theymakemesick]

There was probably an unknown font character in a previous copy of that report that someone's browser or text editor just changed to a "?". Copying and pasting it later just brought the "?" into the message and now it appears that the author punctuated it that way. Unicode converted to ASCII, etc. like the little square boxes that seem to replace " sometimes.

Cheers

[yankeedame]

No offense, mate, but maybe you should switch to decaf.

[Just A Nobody]

Why aren't we told this???
03/16/2008 11:05:43 AM EDT · by Rick66 · 49 replies · 1,052+ views

Rick...thanks for posting.

It is incredibly sad, pathetic really, that on the rare occasions I come to FR these days, every thread becomes a "Bash Bush" session by the likes of posts like yours. 10 out of 50 posts made for the sole purpose of further denigrating our President. It has gone beyond old and tiresome. Give it up! He will be gone in 10 months. Then who you going to bitch about?

There has always been good news coming out of Iraq. Instead of helping get that news out, many here have assisted the treasonous cretins in CONgress and the Enemedia in demolishing and perverting any good news.

Do any of you bother to read, search, look for news, REAL news on Iraq?
Have you ever read this?

Best source for President Bush's words and actions on Iraq!
God knows you never hear about this on the "news" or read about it in one of the "major" propaganda rags. Of course, if any of his statements were published, it was only to ridicule him and/or call him a liar using un-sourced information, words taken out of context, or innuendos. Many of you here helped their efforts. Disgusting!