Would any of you Bush supporters like to know what's REALLY happening in Iraq?

Question

- Maliki's government is falling apart:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10456294

- the power grid is on the brink of collapse
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5028071.html

- the Pentagon has lost 30% of the weapons it gave to Iraq in the past three years.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.weapons/

- Now that the neo-cons finally want to hand Iraq over to the UN, the UN doesn't want it:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/07/news/UN-GEN-UN-Iraq.php

- Meanwhile, bombs keep exploding, civilians keep dying, US troops keep dying.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

- In other words, Iraq is collapsing before our very eyes, and it will only get worse.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/58944/

Now back to Fox News your regularly-scheduled "the surge is working" propaganda...

Of course, Scarlett. For God's sake, don't get your information from objective third-party journalists. Get it directly from the military, so you know it's 100% pure propaganda.

McKenzie, I posted links to the biggest stories coming out of Iraq today. How is that "political bigotry"?

Wow, Ken Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon support the war??? News Flash! NOT!

Answer 1

I agree with Scarlett, I listen to my Military Friends, those I write to in Iraq and take there word for issues more than anything I read or watch on TV here.

But thanks for all the info!

Answer 2

Not a Bush supporter, myself. Just support my country ahead of my own ideology.

These are all good things to keep in mind and should be posted. However...

Folks, educate yourselves. Simply look at all of it, both sides. You know this is one side only intended to distort the truth. You know others do it on the other side.

Read both. Life is never as simplistic as the cheerleading or whining makes it out to be. Real issues are much larger and more complex than your job, your T.V. schedule, your schooling, etc.

When you see someone present only one side, particularly in large amounts like this "question", red flags should go off in your head telling you, "This is a seriously biased post, question the assumptions and seek out the other side".

I don't care what the post is about or what it complains about/supports. Most of us do, but there's some that just don't get that, yet, or are fairly young and inexperienced (you can tell them because they repost what they see others post but have nothing showing of their own, just more of the same).

Seek the truth, not political bigotry.

Whether Fox news is biased or not, that one phrase is changing the United States: "Fair and Balanced" (Which may not be good for Fox if it isn't, because the rest of us, those who AREN'T political bigoted, REALLY want that).

Answer 3

i have three family memebers and even more friends that have been there in the last years that say that
1. its better then the first time they were there
2. we are helping people there
3 that almost everyone they meet love our presence there and thank the troops all the time
i understand these are not hard facts but they are insights given buy people who were putting there life on the line in this war.

Answer 4

Sorry to disappoint, but these sources aren't from FOX. Of course you won't see any of this in the liberal (anti war, anti US propaganda) media!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876743/posts

http://www.progressiveu.org/101752-the-surge-is-working-in-iraq-what-say-you-dems

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46946

http://www.elephantbiz.com/2007/07/democratic_analysts_surge_is_w.html

EVEN THE NY TIMES ADMITS THAT IT'S WORKING!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/opinion/30pollack.html?ex=1343448000&en=33f56c9c2e2a6389&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

What the left wing media doesn't show you!
http://www.army.mil/-news/2007/03/30/2475-iraq-rebuilding-successes-dont-get-enough-ink-general-says/

http://yargb.blogspot.com/2007/04/american-successes-in-iraq.html

Now, why don't you go back to YOUR regularly programmed "the war is lost" "the war is unjust" terrorist appeasing left wing bullsh*t propaganda media...

Those journalists (CNN, AP for Yahoo, NZHerald) from your links are ANYTHING BUT OBJECTIVE! They all have left wing spin on them!

Answer 5

Hey look it's been 3 years since the victory parades, did we give them a lifetime guarantee or what? Now we have every excuse to move in on that oil permanently and looks like Bin Laden went to his grave knowing plenty more martyrs will be following soon, how much success can one stand?

Answer 6

I've got a surge for ya.

Answer 7

Yes. Isn't it odd that one of the biggest suppliers of weapons to the Iraqi insurgents isn't Iran, its the United States.

This is what happens when a commander in chief goes to war with absolutely no plan.

Answer 8

Well, I often volunteer at the local VA hospital and the veterans I speak with say things are improving there, and that we need to stay at it.

Answer 9

My brother is in the Army and he is in Iraq right now. I prefer to listen to what he has to say, since he is living it. CNN just doesn't do it for me.

Answer 10

That's an oxymoron. To be a Bush supporter means that you are ignoring the reality of Iraq.