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Posted on 03/25/2009 1:26:28 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
'MARKETS without bombs. Hummers without guns. Ice cream after dark. Busy streets without fear." So began Terry McCarthy's report from Iraq for ABC's World News Sunday on March 15, one of a series the network aired last week as the war in Iraq reached its sixth anniversary.
A nationwide poll of Iraqis reveals that "60 percent expect things to get better next year - almost three times as many as a year and a half ago," McCarthy continued. "Iraqis are slowly discovering they have a future. We flew south to Basra, where 94 percent say their lives are going well. Oil is plentiful here. So is money."
In another report two nights later, ABC's correspondent characterized the Iraqi capital as "a city reborn: speed, light, style - this is Baghdad today. Where car bombs have given way to car racing. Where a once-looted museum has been restored and reopened. And where young women who were forced to cover their heads can again wear the clothes that they like."
One such young woman is dental student Hiba al-Jassin, who fled Baghdad's horrific violence two years ago, but found the city transformed when she returned last fall. "I'm just optimistic," she told McCarthy. "I think we are on the right path."
ABC wasn't alone in conveying the latest glad tidings from Iraq.
"Iraq combat deaths at 6-year low," USA Today reported on its front page last Wednesday. The story noted that in the first two months of 2009, 15 US soldiers were killed in action - one-fourth the number killed in the same period a year ago, and one-tenth the 2007 toll.
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Bush had nothing to do with it! It’s only going good because of the respect that the Islamists have for the Obamassiah...
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Unfortunately, most of the non-thinking will subconsciously connect Obama and victory and forget Bush altogether.
This will be like Korea. Seriously. It wasn’t a tie
You see? Obama is making good things happen! He’s brilliant...a genius, actually.
We are achieving victory in Iraq. God bless George Bush and our troops for ignoring the tide of critics that openly campaigned for failure. These existed among citizens, the media, and even near the top of our own government. They kept trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by saying that the war was futile and campaigning for us to withdrawl all troops and come home having lost, regardless of how that would affect not only the Iraqi people but the security of America. George Bush and our troops stood firm, and they have not only made America safer but provided a better life for the Iraqi people who no longer live under tyranny.
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All Democrats in Congress, some Republicans, Obama, nearly every newspaper in the country, and the network news rooms should have zero credibility now, but that's simply not the case.
Perhaps the benefits of winning this war will have to accrue over time to prove them all so utterly wrong. The demise of print media that we are witnessing could be solely as a result of their collective judgment on the war, and that is encouraging.
We ELECTED these same nincompoops at a time when perhaps it wasn't as clear as it is now that they were off 180 degrees on Iraq. We must continue to keep the Iraq victory on the forefront, because those who opposed it deserve to be flogged with it at every turn.
The liberals may attempt to change the history of this, but the people of Iraq and the entire middle east will tell the story as it happened.
Not Bush’s fault bump.
“If the republicans in the congress and senate had guarded his back, this whole thing would have been different. But no, they did what was “fashionable” and bashed Bush along with all the rest of the weaklings.”
That deserves to be said again.
Bump
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