Posted by
JP on Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:37:40 AM
by Ralph
Peters [author,
novelist]
Do we still have troops in Iraq? Is there still a conflict over there?
If you rely on the so-called mainstream media, you may have difficulty
answering those questions these days. As Iraqi and Coalition forces
pile up one success after another, Iraq has magically vanished from the
headlines.
Want a real "inconvenient truth?" Progress in Iraq is powerful and accelerating.
But that fact isn't helpful to elite media commissars and cadres
determined to decide the presidential race over our heads. How dare our troops win? Even worse, Iraqi troops are winning. Daily.
You won't see that above the fold in The New York Times. And forget the Obama-intoxicated news networks - they've adopted his story line that the clock stopped back in 2003. [more]