So, the press has you convinced that we have screwed up so badly in Iraq that we are running headlong into disaster. This is a quagmire, this is GW's Vietnam (Just ask Teddy Kennedy - he might pause in his diatribe of the horrors of water torture to fill you in...) we are so messed up - there may be no recovery and Iraq may fall completely apart!

Maybe, before you jump off the nearest building in despair, you should read this essay over at Blackfive's. It's long, but worth every bit of time it takes to read!

I don't think the press should roll over and play dead - ignoring all the bad news and bringing us only good news. But in their zealousness to stick it to GW, they have moved from reporting to actual psy-ops warfare. Unfortunately they appear to be working for the benefit of the enemy.

There used to be a word for that - but a bunch of people get really bent if you use it because it's considered to be "going overboard" and "over-reacting" and "why don't you criticize GW and the Republicans once in a while". I figure though that the press has been so rabid - criticizing every single thing (whether it deserves it or not) that unless it is outright outrageous - I'm not going to add to it.

As far as I'm concerned, this type of psychological wearing down - is about the most damaging thing that can be done to an enemy. You break the spirit so they just stop fighting. Sadly our own press seems to be working this angle (revved up during the Vietnam war by Walter Cronkite) on the American people quite relentlessly. I'm tired of it.

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Greyhawk has an excellent roundup of good stories coming out of Iraq.... there are about 15 of them if I counted correctly. None of them - not a single one made it to the big time media outlets. All of these stories were from over the weekend.

Nope Greyhawk checked, the MSM stuck with their continuing meme of death and disaster...

From militants or rebels (depending on who's reporting - how bout calling them terrorists???) trying to stop the elections to car bombs and resignations.

Well, I guess the best thing that can be said of the MSM is that they make really fun blog fodder. The worst is that so many people still use them as their major or only source of news. (no wonder disaster is seen at every turn)

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