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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
By davidjeffers | June 19, 2008
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Charles Gibson on ABC World News Tonight report that “the U.S. military has succeeded in clearing 50 percent of improvised explosive devices in Iraq while simultaneously improving force protection”?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News quote Maj. Marc Young, a Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesperson, saying that “With every operation Coalition Forces conduct we are further degrading and destroying the al-Qaeda in Iraq network”?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News report that the “South Baghdad economy is booming again”?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hold a press conference after these reports and thank the President for his steadfastness in leading our country in the war on terror; or maybe she could just praise the troops for the tremendous progress in Iraq?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid come out and say that although he really believed at the time that the war was lost, that he gratefully comes forward to say he was wrong and praise the great American military for a magnificent job?
Wouldn’t it be nice to see John Murtha come out and apologize to the Haditha Marines for wrongly accusing them and asking for their and all Americans forgiveness?
Wouldn’t it be nice if these six incidents were just figments of my imagination and that if these things actually did occur my written desires would be unnecessary?
How is it possible that just 11 days after the 64th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy that I find myself writing such ruminations?
Do the major three networks just not know that these things are occurring in Iraq or do they choose not to report them? Are these three politicians oblivious to the truth?
The U.S. military has succeeded in clearing 50 percent of improvised explosive devices in Iraq while simultaneously improving force protection.
The Coalition Forces have detained 20 suspected terrorists in a raid.
The South Baghdad economy is booming again.
The troops have made the tremendous progress in Iraq.
America is winning the war in Iraq.
Seven Haditha Marines have been cleared of all charges of wrongdoing.
While I personally challenge the patriotism of the three news organizations and the three politicians, let’s just say for argument’s sake that I am out of line. Well then it is clear that all six are playing politics with this war and that means their politics come before their patriotism.
Wouldn’t it be nice if that were not so?
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