Simply put, he’s doing the best reporting to come out of Iraq.
The courage of the Iraqi people that January day planted a seed of confidence in my mind. These were not timid or cowering souls. There I was: an American in a dangerous Iraqi city, at the very polling site that soldiers were wagering would be bombed. I was weaponless and alone. One after another, Iraqis came and shook my hand, showing me their children, laughing, smiling, saying over and over, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I felt like an honored guest, and I felt a twinge of shame that I�d held less confidence in the Iraqis than they�d mustered for themselves.
Once again an honest on-the-ground report and observation without a need for an agenda. I look forward to Michael’s reports.
Yup, moonbats have absolutely nothing positive to contribute to any stage of world events that requires ACTION.
Which proves that Canada is at best MARGINAL on the world stage. Why else is PMPM making hideous faces? He’s truly scared.
Thank God for GWB and the US Military! Thank God they’re really not gonna kick toy-socialist play-commie Canuck ass.
I love reading Michael Yon’s writings, but at the same time it’s also a stark reminder that I reside in such an irrelevant, limp-wristed nation governed by a bunch of criminal cowards.
From Drudge:
“Journalists’ Hotel in Baghdad Attacked”
Perhaps the MSM reporters might want to consider embedding themselves with U.S. troops instead of paying local Iraqi youths for news “scoops” or simply waiting to spot smoke in the distance from the hotel balconies and upload the images on their sattelite phones calling them “Attacks on U.S. troops by insurgents”. Not to mention Yon seems to be alot safer than the hotel “guests”.
Eh. Not always. Read some of his earlier entries. At one point he was forced to grab a gun and help out. (I believe he’s former Special Forces.)
Did some digging Kate and yes, Yon was a S.F. member. Poked around on Google and found quite a few lefties who seem quite “afraid” of him, for lack of a better word!
Eskimo, I was thinking the same thing as I watched the journalists running down the hallway of their hotel while blasts went off outside. Michael Yon has been on the “sharp end” for quite awhile, and now the action has been delivered to the journalists. Wonder if any drinks were spilled?
He did a really Good radio hour last night.
If I was a lefty journalist, I would be terrified of him too. “Purple Fingers” was a story the left-wing media dare not tell, so we all had to wait for Yon’s dispatch to get the Picture…
Michael Yon’s reports are wonderful and provide an interesting perspective of how the battle for Mosul has been won.
However, for an overview on how this war of liberation is being won (and it is clearly being won – despite all the dishonest coverage we are getting from the sick and pro-islamofascist MSM ) the best source is Bill Roggio at The Fourth Rail. In fact, nobody else is even close.
http://billroggio.com/
Any sign of the self-financing reconstruction Wolfowitz was promising?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
The ghoulish death-watch of the MSM & the left will soon be on full display. Their suicidal march into the garbage heap of history is their reward. Read the following in order to “Know Your Enemy”. >>>>>>
Iraq death toll now 1,999
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Reuters ^ | 10/25/05 | Reuters
Two U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, the military said on Tuesday, pushing the total U.S. military death toll since the 2003 invasion to 1,999. A military statement said the Marines died on Friday near the town of Amariya outside Falluja, a focus of the Sunni Arab insurgency against the U.S.-backed Baghdad government. The statement said the deaths were in addition to two other military personnel, a Marine and a sailor, who were earlier reported killed in the incident. U.S. military casualties are now just one short of the headline-grabbing 2,000…
freerepublic.com
Democracy and freedom triumph in Iraq.
Long live freedom and democracy.
Long live free Iraq. >>>>
Iraq’s draft constitution is adopted by Iraqi voters, officials say
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s landmark constitutional was adopted by a majority of voters during the country’s Oct. 15 referendum, election officials said Tuesday.
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Under Clinton the danger from Saddam’s WMD programs were considered a fact, and the major media were pressing that something be done. A reality that almost everyone now seems conveniently to have forgotten.
Washington Post, Oct. 25: “It Wasn’t Just Miller’s Story”, By Robert Kagan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102401405.html
Excerpts:
‘…Many critics outside the Times suggest that Miller’s eagerness to publish the Bush administration’s line was the primary reason Americans went to war. The Times itself is edging closer to this version of events.
There is a big problem with this simple narrative. It is that the Times, along with The Post and other news organizations, ran many alarming stories about Iraq’s weapons programs before the election of George W. Bush. A quick search through the Times archives before 2001 produces such headlines as “Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say”(November 1998), “U.S. Says Iraq Aided Production of Chemical Weapons in Sudan”(August 1998), “Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort” (February 2000), “Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration” (February 2000), “Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program” (July 2000). (A somewhat shorter list can be compiled from The Post’s archives, including a September 1998 headline: “Iraqi Work Toward A-Bomb Reported.”) The Times stories were written by Barbara Crossette, Tim Weiner and Steven Lee Myers; Miller shared a byline on one…
In 1999 Weiner reported that “Iraq’s chances of rebuilding a secret arsenal look good.” Hussein was “scouring the world for tools to build new weapons.” He might “be as close to building a nuclear weapon — perhaps closer — than he was in 1991.” In 2000 Myers reported that Iraq had rebuilt 12 “missile factories or industrial sites” thought to be “involved in Iraq’s efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction” and had “continued its pursuit of biological and chemical weapons.”
The Times’s sources were “administration officials,” “intelligence officials,” “U.N. weapons inspectors” and “international analysts.” The “administration officials” were, of course, Clinton officials. A number of stories were based not on off-the-record conversations but on public statements and documentation by U.N. inspectors.
From 1998 through 2000, the Times editorial page warned that “without further outside intervention, Iraq should be able to rebuild weapons and missile plants within a year” and that “future military attacks may be required to diminish the arsenal again.” Otherwise, Iraq could “restore its ability to deliver biological and chemical weapons against potential targets in the Middle East.” “The world,” it said, “cannot leave Mr. Hussein free to manufacture horrific germs and nerve gases and use them to terrorize neighboring countries.”
Times editorials insisted the danger from Iraq was imminent. When the Clinton administration attempted to negotiate, they warned against letting “diplomacy drift into dangerous delay. Even a few more weeks free of inspections might allow Mr. Hussein to revive construction of a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon.” They also argued that it was “hard to negotiate with a tyrant who has no intention of honoring his commitments and who sees nuclear, chemical and biological weapons as his country’s salvation.” “As Washington contemplates an extended war against terrorism,” a Times editorial insisted, “it cannot give in to a man who specializes in the unthinkable.”..
On Jan. 29, 2001, The Post editorialized that “of all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous — or more urgent — than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade’s efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf,” including “intelligence photos that show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons.”
This was the consensus before Bush took office, before Scooter Libby assumed his post and before Judith Miller did most of the reporting for which she is now, uniquely, criticized. It was based on reporting by a large of number of journalists who in turn based their stories on the judgments of international intelligence analysts, Clinton officials and weapons inspectors. As we wage what the Times now calls “the continuing battle over the Bush administration’s justification for the war in Iraq,” we will have to grapple with the stubborn fact that the underlying rationale for the war was already in place when this administration arrived.’
Mark
Ottawa
The ‘underlying rational’ was, in my opinion, not for waging war but for containment. The buzz then was that SH must be contained. As we have found out–he was contained.
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