When All Else Fails
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, said Thursday, back in the U.S. on leave at Fort Stewart, that the war in Iraq is “a winnable mission” if the the media would only cooperate.
“If the American people are informed properly,” Lynch told reporters after he arrived home on leave, “I believe they will be supportive of the mission. But they’re not getting the right story. As a result, they’re anti the war.”
The media use a “filter” that downplays information about American successes: “All I’m seeing when I watch TV … is the bad news and not the good news.”
I wonder if the good Major General has any sort of objective way of deciding which “American success” balances out cholera spreading in Iraq?
What success can he cite that balances out nearly two million Iraqis being turned into homeless refugees in the past year.
How many good things does America have to accomplish to make up for over 650,000 civilian deaths or the near destruction of Iraq’s past?
Blaming the media for negative public opinion is a desperate and lame diversion, by an incompetent spokesman, fighting a losing battle, unless of course the good Major General can in fact point to successes that justify the destruction, death, and chaos, that America is responsible for.
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Although I completely disagree with you regarding the Iraq war and the media I’ll publish this post in support of free speech.
Blaming the media for negative public opinion is a desperate and lame diversion Um, the media IS responsible for most of the negative opinions regarding the war in Iraq.
However, don’t be disappointed if others at Linkfest Haven decline to publish you post.
Yeah, I have noticed that the conservative set at LinkFest does things like that – you’re not the first to bring it up, and you wouldn’t have been the first to censor a dissenting opinion if you had gone down that road. Personally I find cyber “me to, me to, me to, I agree” jerks pointless, others seem to enjoy it.
Possibly you have some ideas of what “American successes” do justify and/or balance out the events that I noted, or any number of others that I could link.
*fingers in ears*
lalalalalala Iraq war good lalalala
lalalalalala listen to FoxNews they are Fair and Balanced, it’s in their NAME! lalalala
“Um, the media IS responsible for most of the negative opinions regarding the war in Iraq.”
Butch may be correct. But not quite in the way he means.
The war in Vietnam was the first US war not to enjoy widespread popular support at home. I’ve always wondered to what extent that was because it was the first war to occur in an era when the primary medium informing the world was visual, as opposed to auditory, and there was little or no lag separating events from the widespread distribution of the REAL images of war. It was the first US war fought in the age of Mcluhan, the first time voters SAW the direct consequences of their political servants (NOT masters) decisions on American soldiers and Vietnamese villages.
And this is the first major YouTube war. It can’t be edited or censored.
I think media IS responsible for most the of the negative opinions regarding the war in Iraq. But that’s because those opinions are now informed.
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