But they're just being balanced Kate, with all the 'good' news from Iraq that keeps annoyingly getting out, they must be prompt to inform us how awful things are over there now.

Must be just frosting them and the airheads at cbc that this was a lib call.

Heh.

"... to suit the [Globe's] agenda of undermining the mission in Afghanistan."

NY Times copy cats.

One has to wonder if Taliban Jack Layton, Denis Coderre are Mamma Khadr are editorial board members at the Globe.

Please Lord. When oh when are we Western rednecked,knuckledraggin',Neanderthal,racist,________phobic type bigots going to tell everything and everybody East of the Saskatchewan border to go F%$K themselves and we just have a nice,quiet little referendum on when we are going to start the Republic of Western Freedom,and tell the rest of the world we are know really open for business,sans any leftard,socialist,facist,commie,"progressive" influences?

After more than twelve hours, the Red Star's main editorial has exactly two comments posted to it ('moderated' at that -- no doubt to maintain political reliability).
SDA's review of the story has double that number minutes after posting. Gawd, Kate, is the word "mercy" absent from your vocabulary?

The media are actively trying to get our soldiers killed so as to get their liberal buddies elected. They regularly present Taliban propaganda as news and do whatever they can to demoralize Canadians and our troops - even though the Afghan mission is one of only two (the other being Korea) wars sanctioned by the UN. This is immoral and treasonous. Anyone who reads or watches most of the major Canadian media is participating in this treason. The MSM should not be consumed but prosecuted.

I have no problem with criticism of our decision to go to war and the execution of our war plans. This is distinctly different from what the traitors in the media do on a regular basis. Once our troops are over there fighting the Canadian media must have a higher responsibility than scoring cheap political points. Their defense of not taking sides is self-serving horse-bleep. As if the Taliban prosecution of the war is in any way equivalent to the NATO prosecution of the war.

The only good MSM journalist is an unemployed MSM journalist. Do your part - don't read or watch them. Support SDA and the dozens of other excellent blogs.

Amazing.One of the stupid beeyotch lefties said we where in A'stan to keep the pipelines open. A'stan has no oil. So what pipelines are we keeping open? Unfortunately I can't post a rebuttal against her as I have the attained the elite status of being banned from the Slope and Flail. Free speech indeed.

Holy Burkhas,Mohammadfreak. This post has been up for 2:15 hours,and no Isam,Hayes,whatever, to defend his beloved religion of pedophiles and murderers? Mommy put you to bed early tonight?? In 5...4..3...2

Want to get back at the Globe?
Get a list of their advertisers and send them all letters explaining just exactly what is wrong with supporting the turds....

Hey now, Eric Margolis tells us the Afghan war is ALL about a natural gas pipeline. Across Afghanistan. In 2008. Gee, I wonder how far they'll have to bury it.

The G&M drivel is par for the course with those guys, but they're pikers compared to the likes of Margolis and his idiot in partnership Siddiqui. A read of their articles this weekend will show what I mean. Margolis tells us there are only 300 AQ in Afghan, so what's the big deal. Anyway, the Taliban aren't terrorists, and it was the American's fault for arming them to the teeth with Russian and Chinese equipment. Siddiqui decides to defend Mugabe with classless, "well Dubya's not very nice either" crap. Only an idiot would offer equivalence between the two, despite one's exasperation with Dubya at times.

None of them has a clue what they're talking about. They fantasize what the goals and conduct of war should be, never defining them, and expecting everything to be viewed through their biased anti-position. This what they mean by defeat. I've heard it over and over again - do everything in your power to undermine the mission, then claim it's not going well.

Who cares what they think. Most Canadians, IMHO, are proud of their military and the conduct of the mission. They are bringing credit unto this nation, while proving that the Canadian military tradition of smart, underequipped, superbly trained killers of scumbags, is well and truly being served by our gallant military.

That's why Canadians don't care what Margolis et al think, why hardly anyone supports them; and that's why Canadians don't care about the little puke POW Khadr. He would gladly have offed a Canadian soldier if given the chance.

The "progressives" have lost, and the G&M article is evidence they're overreaching, but once again to no avail.

The end is in sight for the LIARS. Or for the Toronto morons who have to ride raid transit every day, the Grope and Fail and the Red Star of Toronto are bleeding red ink as fast as the NYT. With any luck this blog and the many others can administer the coup-de-grace and finish off the liars of the MSM.

"wretchard:

I think al-Qaeda’s decision to engage America in Iraq will rank as one of the greatest strategic blunders of all time. They didn’t have to. Al-Qaeda could have preserved their legend by doing nothing.

Maybe America owes an eternal debt of gratitude to the MSM, academia and the entire liberal establishment for encouraging the Jihad to come out of the woodwork and materialize in Iraq, where, if movies like the Battle of Algiers was to be believed, America would find its graveyard. Instead the AQ was roundly, decisively and publicly beaten into a pulp by the very forces which the MSM was so sure were destined to defeat. Thank you so much MSM. Thank you. Thank you.

But maybe I should add that the MSM almost had us beat; almost stampeded public opinion into turning victory into defeat. Why the MSM didn’t succeed will be an historical problem on the order of why Hitler lost on the Eastern Front. Maybe God does bless America."

"Retreat to Afghanistan

The relationship between operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is recognized by the fact that one commander is strategically in charge of both. General David Petraeus was recently confirmed as CENTCOM CINC, placing him in overall charge of military operations both in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. That Iraq and Afghanistan are linked — both part of one big war rather than two separate and independent conflicts — should not seriously be in doubt. The average Jihadi sees both as battlefronts as a single campaign against America. The Times Online recently reported on how the “lions of Islam” were falling back on Afghanistan/Pakistan after their defeat in Iraq:"
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/07/21/retreat-to-afghanistan/

Mazz: It's heartening to hear of the success in Iraq and elsewhere. Too bad it all goes for nought if Obama gets elected.

Terrorists couldn't have any better friends than those of the Left cheering for the failure of the Afghan Mission by the likes of the Globe & Mail.

What else can we make of the constant negative reporting?

With our Military deployed to that Mission,struggling to bring stability to the people, fighting and dying in the effort, that's pure scum bag journalism.

They should be ashamed but they're obviously incapable. It's up to the public to put them in their place, out of business.

The leftards are stradling the line of "Demarcation" of sedation, they appear to want the mission to fail so they can pontificate "I was right I was right" the war on terror is a failure. If we fail it's because they aided and abetted our enemy, we need new treason and sedation laws in this country. The next time a marxist leftards goes to a peace summit in a Muslim Country and breaks bread with terorrist organizations like Hamas we could arrest them when they return to Canada and charge them with treason.