Posted on 08/18/2007 4:41:05 PM PDT by DakotaRed
This is a very illuminating article otherwise - it is a snapshot of the upcoming game plan of the Left in the MSM. These people are frightened to death of what General Petraeus is likely to report in September and so are embarked in a little pre-emptive character assassination. He's political, he's biased, he'll say anything... Everything you hear that is positive is a lie, everything you hear that is negative is to be believed uncritically and is proof that "we" were right about the war all along. Oh, and did we mention Bush lied?
That's pretty much it - the rest of the article is pessimistic fluff. Quoting Peggy Noonan on Bush, for example - why didn't they just quote Begala or Olbermann? Better still is this little gem of objective journalism:
Antiwar critics used to be said to suffer from Bush derangement syndrome. Now those who back Bush are the ones who appear out of touch with reality.
That isn't anyone they quoted, by the way, it's the written opinion of the journalists themselves. File that one under "bias."
If anyone has lost the will to anything it is certainly due not to any "fatigue" about the war, which has, after all, had minimal effect on anything in the United States other than politics, but due to the incessant drumbeat of negativity and hostility on the part of an international press who has been nearly unanimously working desperately for defeat for the U.S. from the beginning. The war is not a failure because those who want it to be say so. We are not losing because reporters who want to relay that impression do so.
One does not need to bribe or twist
The arm of the British journalist
Considering what he would do
Unasked, their is no reason to.
Would either one or both of you expand on your answer a bit?
It worries me that both of you have been around here for a long time and have such negative feelings about our country.
I personally don’t think America has lost the will, but certain Americans have. You know who they are. And they are loud and have the megaphone of the MSM and are the MSM
in many cases. And this is not an argumentative post, just curious.
“their”=”there” Quoting from memory there...ah, “their”...
No, it’s the Demon-crats and Liberals who have lost the will to win .....
I no longer have trust or confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity or abilities of the American people to carry out or prosecute a war for their own survival.
Yes, the noise from the Left is deafening, but even more deafening is the silence from the rest. I went to Iraq for nothing.
You are right in that “certain Americans” have lost their will. In fact, I’d say they never had the will to begin with. Unfortunately, those “certain Americans” have a very loud voice and the ear of the Hillary Supporting media that is on their side today.
As I see it, if our All Volunteer Troops have the will to succeed, so should we.
That’s why I want to see Cheney still in office through 2012. He apparently doesn’t want the Presidency, but we need his experience as a third-term vice-president. Cheney fans might give him five terms.
Sarge, it ain’t over until it’s over. Our media doesn’t want good news or Heroic story’s, they want to implement another cut and run defeat. That’s why so many of us aren’t listening to them or following them, we are bypassing the leftist Hillary Supporting media, especially in the 2008 election and spreading the word of the most conservative candidate running.
Never say you went for nothing. Like us when they pulled us out of Viet Nam, we did do something there and were winning, until they turned on us, even though we weren’t allowed to fully fight it.
If nothing else, know you stood for what is right once in your lifetime. Few in society today can make that claim honestly.
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NEVER FORGET
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After Sen. TED KENNEDY pushed a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress into cuttng off all our funding for the Free South Vietnamese to fight for their own Freedom with ..came:
Pictures of a vietnamse Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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What price for the still Free to pay now (that’s US)...
in a new time of war
in a new century
...with our own Freedom
...directly at stake
...here at home
...this time around..?
Just for starters,
.. news of 12 million suddenly missing Iraqi purple voting fingers flashing across our
TV screens..?
BET on it.
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NEVER FORGET
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Only the liberals are willing to grovvel and kiss butt. Conservatives are willing to stand up for what the believe. I do exempt the rinos.
Wars are won by inventing something new and strong, while another works like crazy to ruin the new invention. War is like that. We win, because our troops fight and win a slab of land. The enemy tries to recapture that slab of land. A company invents a new powerful piece of equipment, the “other side” (friends) try to show it’s vulnability. That is the way war is. We fight like crazy, we make a few mistakes, we rectify those mistakes and take the high ground. Americans for the most part don’t understand this. The country that makes the least amount of mistakes wins. It’s always been this way, it will always be this way. If we didn’t have so many non interested, non learned in military tactic reporting the news we would have a better understanding of what is going on in our War on Terror. The WOT is world wide, but our presstitutes of the screaming media do not want the American public to know or realize this piece of information. The muslim terrorists have been terrorizing and burning Christian churches and property since the 1960s. Our screaming media has been very silent about these offences. They have also been very quiet about the goings on in Kosovo, Croatia, Albania and other countries in that area. Will they tell you what’s going one????? I doubt it, cause they don’t have the will or knowledge of the politics and enthenticities of that area, nor will they even try to learn.
No Sarge, the American public has not lost the will to win, it’s the presstitutes of the screaming media, including Fox. These people need something new and exciting every few seconds to breahtly report.
It has been reported that the American public has no patience, but having been in business and met with business people, Americans for the most part have a lot of patiences. We are strong and we are resolute. We will win, we will not give up. For those naysayers, move to Mexico, they have a lot like you.
Gotta agree. The surge came late. It should have been recognized that it was needed a long time ago.
Even World War Two had it's prominent critics. Charles Lindbergh Warns America Not To Enter WW2 On April 23, 1941
America hasn’t lost the will to win yet, but it’s being bred out of our children by the public school system as
fast as they can convince them that there doesn’t have to be “winners and losers”.
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