Fourth Rail has a flash presentation up that provides the kind of information on operations in Iraq that you won’t find at CTV.
The pace and tempo of operations in western Iraq have been increasing over the past month, indicating the Anbar Campaign is moving forward. The disclosure of Operation Sayaid signals the Coalition is now prepared to move on the towns and cities along the western branch of the Euphrates River.
Adventures Of Chester;
The thing that makes this presentation so powerful is its complete independence from the normally practiced way of reporting the war. Most war reports make sweeping generalizations from a few small bits of first-hand observation, for better or worse. They rarely tie military actions together in an operational whole (note: Wretchard has just pointed this out as well at The Belmont Club).
Read Chester’s companion post, which deconstructs a TIME article, validating his father’s opinion that “Life magazine was for people who don’t like to read, and TIME for people who don’t like to think.”
Cosmo said…
Yes, W. The truth eventually comes out. In the meantime, we have to deal with viral memes which could tip the balance here on the home front.
Tony highlighted the ‘Swift Boat Liars,’ which I’ve also heard dismissed conclusively as the ‘debunked’ Swift Boat Vets.
Same goes for the ‘illegal’ occupation, despite its endorsement in resolution form (IIRC) by — all genuflect, now — the UN.
The entire Iraq enterprise is confidently branded ‘hopeless’ and a ‘disaster,’ despite the booming economy and rapid movement toward consitutional democracy.
There are countless others.
Reading Katrina coverage worldwide, one wouldn’t suspect that per capita income for African-Americans exceed that of Swedes, or that America’s ‘poor’ are among the richest people on this planet.
As I commented in a previous thread, until recently spin was confined to highlighting the negative or lint-picking at a generally-accepted reality or stipulated facts.
Today, regardless of facts on the ground, polemecists seize on any event as ‘proof of the failure of X,’ or ‘complete repudiations of Y.’
Thus, in this upside-down world, a free Iraq with fast-growing economy is ‘undoubtedly’ a ‘failure,’ and Katrina ‘conclusively’ ‘repudiates’ small-government conservatism.
During the Cold War, we knew state-controlled media behind the Iron Curtain lied to their captive populations about life in the West. But how many of us ever thought we�d live to see the free people of the West so deliberately and consistently deceived by a free press bent on crippling the very institutions essential to its survival. >>>> more at Belmont Club Comments>>>>
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"Recent Iraq Operations - A Flash Presentation"
For those of you interested in war coverage that goes beyond the typical legacy media casualty reports and ideological framed "adversarial" narratives, check out this presentation of operations that took place Aug 27-Sep 17th in the We…
aparently someone has been dipping into the hard stuff again. sarge been hanging out with vets of the new iraq war here in our nation’s capitol.. don’t none of them think its going well. sarge has plenty of picturs of US servicemen here marching to end the war in uniform…people who have seen it all up close. lets face it, the security situation in iraq is dire and deteriorating, the new constitution will not be ratified, leading to new elections and further violence…poor maz just keep drinking the happy koolaide and wish it was not what it so obviously is.