I have been reading the papers---waching the news on TV--and its hard to tell whats going on in Iraq.....as its hard to find any stories or reports as of late....did the US leave or something???
Where has the daily and nightly gloom and doom gone?? Katie Couric(D)....Keith Olberman(D)....Barrack Obama(D)......Harry Reid(D)....Nancy Pelosi(D)...Hitlary(D)........WHERE ARE YOUR USUAL OUTSPOKEN ANTI-USA VOICES AT???
So considering how QUIET the liberal media and the democrat party have been in regards to Iraq as of late........I knew I would eventually find something like this:
U.S. troop deaths in Iraq at wartime low - Yahoo! News
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nineteen U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq in May, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the lowest monthly death toll since U.S. forces invaded to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The number of Iraqi civilians killed in the same month plunged to 505 after reaching a seven-month high of 968 in April, figures obtained by Reuters from Iraq's interior, defense and health ministries showed.
The U.S. military says violence in Iraq is at a four-year low following crackdowns by U.S. and Iraqi forces on Shi'ite militias in southern Basra and Baghdad and on al Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, its last major urban stronghold
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....isnt this news???....isnt this noteworthy??...HEADLINES??...then why has the majority of the liberal media and the usually outspoken democrat party remained so quiet...THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING!!!
Now one would assume....when the number of attacks have decreased...when troop casualties are at a WARTIME-LOW......victory may looming closer than ever. The successful end and victorious return of America's finest could be approaching rather quickly.......and I wonder........WILL THE MEDIA COVER THAT???? WILL DEMOCRATS BE CHEERING A VICTORIOUS RETURN OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN??..........or will they go hide in their holes like the scum that they are.
Fewer U.S. Dead = Less TV Coverage of Iraq -- 02/28/2008 - Media Research Center - Media Reality Check
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Networks Minimize Good News From Iraq, Don’t Press Democrats on “Wrong-Headed” Predictions
Fewer U.S. Dead = Less
TV Coverage of Iraq
One year ago, liberal journalists depicted the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq as a certain failure. “A lot of people are going to go to bed tonight terrified,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews opined just minutes after President Bush announced the policy on January 10, 2007. Other journalists were only slightly more subtle. “Many experts warn, it’s too little, too late,” NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski argued on the January 8, 2007 Nightly News. The next morning on NBC’s Today, the network’s graphic describing Iraq was “Lost Cause?”
At the same time, leading Democrats left themselves no wiggle room as they, too, denounced the surge. Senator Barack Obama called it “wrong-headed” and countered with a proposal to pull nearly all U.S. troops out of Iraq by March 2008. Senator Hillary Clinton came back from a quick trip to Iraq to declare: “I am opposed to this escalation,” while another Democratic candidate, Senator Joe Biden, blasted the troop surge as “a tragic mistake.”
One year later, the President’s surge strategy is well on its way to succeeding. The Iraqi parliament has passed several laws meeting required political reconciliation benchmarks. Attacks in Baghdad have fallen up to 80 percent in the past twelve months, Reuters reported February 16. Deaths among Iraqi military forces and civilians have dropped by more than two-thirds, from more than 2,000 per month in early 2007 to fewer than 600 per month since November.
And U.S. military deaths have also declined, falling from 126 in May 2007 to 40 in January 2008 and just 29 so far in February, with two days left in the month. Yet this good news seems to have diminished the media elite’s interest in broadcasting any news from Iraq.
MRC intern Lyndsi Thomas helped tabulate all ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Iraq since the beginning of 2007, just as the surge strategy was being implemented. After heavy coverage of the shift to a new Iraq policy in January and February 2007, the TV coverage began to closely track the rising and falling death rates for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. When the number of U.S. fatalities jumped in May, TV coverage jumped, too. When U.S. casualties began to steadily decline, TV coverage of Iraq dramatically decreased. (See chart.)
While the amount of coverage has shriveled, the tone remains more negative than positive. So far this month, the three evening newscasts have aired just 41 items on Iraq, most (23) just brief items read by the anchor. A mere seven stories were field reports from Iraq. Only ABC’s World News (February 13) noted the passage of key legislation by the Iraqi parliament, followed by a unique story the next evening on the success of the surge. The CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News offered no such stories in February, but NBC did find time to report a visit to Iraq by actress Angelina Jolie.
Back in December, NBC’s Tim Russert conceded that the media were less interested in covering a successful U.S. mission in Iraq, telling anchor Brian Williams that “with the surge in Iraq and the level of American deaths declining, it is off the front pages.”
This is not neutral news judgment, but a great favor to anti-surge Democrats, since TV’s lack of interest in Iraq spares them the chore of defending their now-discredited opposition to the surge. Does anyone think the media would have let John McCain off the hook had the surge failed as spectacularly as it has succeeded?
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As U.S. Troops Succeed, Network News Retreats from Iraq War Story | NewsBusters.org
As U.S. Troops Succeed, Network News Retreats from Iraq War Story
By Rich Noyes | February 1, 2008 - 13:24 ET
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After months of improving security in Iraq, the big network morning shows on Friday cited one horrific suicide bombing as proof that “mayhem and misery are back in Baghdad,” as CBS correspondent Mark Strassmann put it. But over the last five months, the broadcast networks have consistently reduced their coverage of Iraq, as if the story of American success in Iraq is less worthy of attention than their old mantra of American failure in Iraq.
Media Research Center analysts tracked all coverage of the Iraq war on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from September 1 through January 31, and we documented a steady decline in TV coverage of Iraq that has coincided with the improving situation in Iraq. Back in September, the three evening newscasts together broadcast 178 stories about the war in Iraq; in January, that number fell to just 47, a nearly fourfold decrease. (See chart.)
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From the DEFEAT INVESTED democrats in Washington that are suddenly silent.....to those in the media that quit reporting on Iraq.....to the liberal Anti-War scum here at AWE--who crawl out of their holes to pronounce and promote every bit of bad news they can find........
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE??????
To protect this country from enemies foreign and DOMESTIC--and DEMOCRATIC!!!
How many more wars will the US have to fight on two fronts---the enemy on the battlefield and the Benedict Arnold press and democrat party here at home??
The very same democrats that claim to support our troops...but yet demean them and their mission whenever possible......the very same democrats that become "energized" and enthusiastic with BAD news out of Iraq.....and yet become very silent when there is nothing but GOOD news.
Has the surge still failed???....is General Patraeus still lying??....Is the war still lost??....
IS THE DEMOCRAT INVESTMENT IN DEFEAT STILL GOING TO PAY OFF??
It has become more blatant and evident...now more than ever....there are those that support the troops...and then there are those that vote democrat.