7/23/2003

LETTERS FROM IRAQ--Are Phony Demonstrators Posing For Media TV?

Andrew Sullivan is soliciting letters from people actually in Iraq who don't have to prove they support the gay agenda before writing. The letters are dam good. Go to the letters here Don't look for any positive news from the media. However I think the Democrats are finally running out of hot air and the Left will be left as the Last Man Standing. As any current blogger will tell you, all our traffic has soared exponentially over one issue and one issue only: KOBE BRYANT. Bryant is dominating all media attention, for a while. Now when people focus back to events, the killing of the Hussein Rap Group allows them to also see the positive side of what we are trying to do there. Extract from part of one letter posted by Sullivan which may disprove my commentary of universal bad morale there. Glenn Reynolds is also publishing same. I know from my Site Meter that a lot of you Military guys read my site and I hope you write to me too; I'll publish. From Sullivan site:

The only reason the GIs are pissed (not demoralized) is that they cannot touch, must less waste, those taunting bags of gas that scream in their faces and riot on cue when they spot a camera man from ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN or NBC. If they did, then they know the next nightly news will be about how chaotic things are and how much the Iraqi people hate us.
Some do. But the vast majority don't and more and more see that the GIs don't start anything, are by-and-large friendly, and very compassionate, especially to kids and old people. I saw a bunch of 19 year-olds fromthe 82nd Airborne not return fire coming from a mosque until they got a group of elderly civilians out of harm's way. So did the Iraqis.
A bunch of bad guys used a group of women and children as human shields.The GIs surrounded them and negotiated their surrender fifteen hours later and when they discovered a three year-old girl had been injured by the big tough guys throwing her down a flight of stairs, the GIs called in a MedVac helicopter to take her and her mother to the nearest field hospital. The Iraqis watched it all, and there hasn't been a problem inthat neighborhood since. How many such stories, and there are hundreds of them, never get reported in the fair and balanced press? You know, nada.
The civilians who have figured it out faster than anyone are the local teenagers.
They watch the GIs and try to talk to them and ask questions about America and Now wear wrap-around sunglasses, GAP T- shirts, Dockers (or even better Levis with the red tags) and Nikes (or Egyptian knock-offs, but with the "swoosh") and love to listen to AFN when the GIs play it on their radios.
They participate less and less in the demonstrations and help keep us informed when a wannabe bad-ass shows up in the neighborhood.
The younger kids are going back to school again, don't have to listen to some mullah rant about the Koran ten hours a day, and they get a hot meal.
They see the same GIs who man the corner checkpoint, helping clear the playground, install new swingsets and create soccer fields. I watched a bunch of kids playing baseball in one playground, under the supervision of a couple of GIs from Oklahoma. They weren't very good but were having fun, probably more than most Little Leaguers
The place is still a mess but most of it has been for years. But the Hospitals are open and are in the process of being brought into the 21stCentury. The MOs and visiting surgeons from home are teaching their docs new techniques and One American pharmaceutical company (you know, the kind that all the hippies like to scream about as greedy) donated enough medicine to stock 45 hospital pharmacies for a year.
Really good stuff here and here, and lots of places linked by same. We are NOT getting the truth from Iraq by the Media.

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