Headlines from Baghdad 2014:

Iraq Parents Outraged
Thousands of Baghdad students today are forced to use textbooks from 2006. Democrats say GOP Secretary of Education
should resign.

12 Killed On Bus
12 innocent Iraqi citizens were killed today when an airport bus crashed on the Bush Freeway north of Baghdad. Horrified witnesses said the bus hit a donkey, an ongoing crisis that the administration seems unable to deal with. “Guillian said he was going to take care of these asses last year and they are still wandering all over the country side”, said Senator Clinton. “We’ve wasted millions on the Iraq infrastructure and this is proof we need to get our workers out. Now”

DisneyIraq Construction Threatned.
Democrats today called for impeachment of President Guilliani over questionable construction loans for the DisneyIraq theme park.

Senator Clinton: Impeach Traffic Czar
Senator Clinton stated today in a hastely called new conference that Presidents Guilliani’s Trasportation Czar should be tried for manslaughter over last week’s Bagdad Bus Crash.

The perfect face for Old Media.

That’s one of my pet peeves during the primary season. The news media thinks it would be so fun for there to be a brokered convention, that everytime there’s not a clear winner, they start talking it up. I don’t know if this’ll come up again this year, but if it does, you’ll know there will be at least one person out there seething at their lack of objectivity.

Here’s an idea for you: Let’s run an expose of each and every slanted, silly, and outright wrong “news” story run by the MSM and call the series “The death of Mainstream Journalism”.

You can list the “casualties” every night: failed newspapers, TV stations which are dead or wounded, etc, etc. And to be “fair”, you should start at the beginning of the list each and every night….and don’t forget to mention what killed each one at least twice.

If Bob Scheiffer doesn’t come back a changed man,
then he will forever be lost to that great abyss
of Liberalism!

As Jim Rome is wont to say: “Rack ‘Im!”

Scumbag……

We need to hear about the enemy’s plans for Iraq in contrast to the freedom that our troops are fighting to establish for Iraq.

There is not just one enemy of freedom in Iraq.

Islamic allegiance, except for apostates, is with Allah and Mohammad and the Koran and the Hadiths, not with freedom and liberty.

Therein lies the problem.

The inconvenient truth is that the West should be exporting secularism around the world before it exports democracy. Democracy implies not just one person one vote, but no less important, that the political process proceeds by rational means, by argument, by persuasion, and is based on knowledge that is as objective, as scientific, as one can make it. The objective knowledge has to come first.
- Peter Watson
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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

I know a currently serving Army Infantry Officer who says that one of the best ways that Americans can support the troops and their families is by going to the funerals of the fallen. Some of them do not have that many attendees.

He says that when state side he goes to any that are within driving distance and brings a clean dress uniform with him while traveling to do the same.

He says that it is the least that he can do.

You’re a major media maven, Bob. Make it happen.

A polite, older “major media maven”, but still a biased liberal one. The New Year is nearing – resolutions are possible…then again, they’re easiest to ignore…

Simple: perspective.

Perspective is always painfully absent from the mainstream media.

Bryan has the right places to start. If 10 soldiers died this week … how about telling us what was accomplished? Perspective! What else happened? Both the good and the bad. All of it. Just give us perspective. Let us decide whether those deaths were a tragic waste … or a heroic sacrifice for a worthy cause.

You report. We decide. The facts. Remember?

Or how about broader perspective? When you report troop casualties – how do they compare to other conflicts? Other battles? There have been single days in American history when as many died as have died during ALL of the Iraqi conflict.

Single days. One. Day. In fact, if you count only combat deaths, we still lost more Americans on 9/11 than during all of the Iraq conflict (this may have changed recently) … but the numbers are still very close.

Shouldn’t the limousine liberals marching on campuses know this stuff? I mean, they’re given plenty of phony or partial information – shouldn’t they, shouldn’t all of us, benefit from a little perspective?

How about comparing casualty statistics to peacetime statistics? Most people seem completely unaware that people die at Camp Pendleton or Camp Lejeune or Fort Bragg … even during peacetime.

When you bring hundreds of thousands of people together, accidents happen. Car accidents. Training accidents. Bar brawls. Tennis elbow. S*it happens. So give us that information, too. Okay, say 30 soldiers died this month. Now how many soldiers in a comparable population die sitting at home stateside?

It ain’t ZERO, no matter what the media implies.

Speaking of statistics … how about general population statistics. There will be more preventable car accident deaths in December 2007 alone than ALL the combat deaths in Iraq to date.

More people will be killed in their swimming pools and on their skateboards and by their worn-out Christmas lights TODAY then they will in Iraq. I freaking guarantee it.

Sorry for the rant.

It just seems such a little thing to ask. Just some perspective. Please.