Our MSM Doing It’s Best To Undermine This Country

My old friend the AP continues it’s quest to print only the negative in Iraq while ignoring anything good out of there with this article printed today: (h/t Bookworm Room)

Another U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the military said Thursday, pushing the four-year death toll for American forces to 3,501, according to an Associated Press tally.

The count includes 23 deaths in the first six days of June, an average of about four per day.

The soldier was killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded during combat operations in a southwestern section of Baghdad, a military statement said. It added that two other soldiers were wounded in the attack and evacuated to a coalition medical facility.

The soldiers’ names were withheld pending notification of relatives.

The Bush administration has warned that the current troop buildup in and around Baghdad will result in more U.S. casualties as American troops increasingly come into contact with enemy forces.

This goes on for another 18 paragraphs of doom and gloom including this story:

An hour later, in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, police said three policemen were killed and four wounded when a suicide driver blew up his automobile at their checkpoint near the traffic police headquarters.

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Jeff Pool disputed the report and offered different details, saying Iraqi police foiled the attack by shooting at a dump truck, causing it to explode. He said several civilians were wounded, but nobody was killed except the attacker.

I know, shocker!  The AP using a anonymous police source to print a story that turned out to be a bit overexaggerated.  I’m sure this doesn’t happen daily tho….

Sigh….

Anyways, I scoured the AP wires and found no mention of a few things that also occurred in the last few days:

• In three coordinated raids southeast of Fallujah, Coalition Forces detained 11 suspected terrorists tied to the al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader network.  Two of the targeted individuals are believed to be al-Qaeda in Iraq members responsible for recruitment and facilitation of terrorist cells in the area.
• Coalition Forces captured a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist leader during a raid on two buildings in Hit.  The individual allegedly replaced another senior leader who recently fled the area.  Coalition Forces detained three more suspected terrorists at the scene for their connection to al-Qaeda senior leadership.
• During operations in the Anbar province Coalition Forces detained five suspected terrorists.  Based on information from a suspected terrorist detained June 1, Coalition Forces detained two suspected terrorists associated with an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader believed to have close ties to Abu Ayyub al-Masri.  In a coordinated raid, Coalition Forces detained three suspected terrorists believed to be involved with numerous kidnappings and murders.
• Coalition Forces detained one suspected terrorist in Mosul during operations targeting an al-Qaeda in Iraq cell responsible for the recent bombings in Irbil and Kirkuk.
• Coalition Forces raided several locations in follow-on operations after a Tuesday raid that killed a senior leader in a Baghdad VBIED cell.
• In five other raids in Baghdad, Coalition Forces detained six suspected terrorists associated with the VBIED network and destroyed two vehicles used to transport weapons and personnel for the cell.  A related raid south of Tarmiyah netted three suspects tied to the terrorist group.
• Reports from suspected terrorists captured during the Coalition raids indicate there are IEDs in place around the city, which Coalition Forces are now identifying and neutralizing.  Intelligence reports also indicate that the VBIED cell is responsible for chlorine attacks, assassination attempts against Iraqi officials and other high-profile attacks in Baghdad.
• Intelligence reports indicated the targeted building in the raid was a residence known to be a safe house for the targeted individual.  As Coalition Forces were securing the targeted building, numerous suspected terrorists attempted to flee and were detained by ground forces.  One terrorist made continuous hostile attempts to evade the ground forces and refused to listen to instructions given by the interpreter with Coalition Forces.  Coalition Forces, responding in self-defense, engaged the terrorist, killing him. Three suspected terrorists were also detained during the raid.
  • Muhammad Mahmud ‘Abd Kazim Husayn al-Mashadani, also known as Abu Abdullah, was the terrorist killed during the raid.  He was a known al-Qaeda emir in the Hay al-Jamah area of Baghdad and part of a deadly vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell.
• Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducted an early morning operation June 5 in Baghdad, capturing four suspects believed to be coordinating and conducting extra judicial killings in the Baghdad area. 
• During the two-day operation targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq activities in the area, Coalition Forces detained 11 suspected terrorists for their involvement with al-Qaeda, uncovered seven weapons caches and found a fully assembled vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.
  • Local Iraqis led Coalition Forces to seven separate weapons caches in the area.  One of the caches was concealed in a small, man-made cave and contained a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, RPG rounds, a light machine gun, anti-personnel rounds, various ammunition, four bayonets, military-style assault vests and black masks.  Another cache buried in a barrel contained small arms, a gas mask and chemical agent first aid kit, five assault vests and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

    Five of the caches contained military-style uniform components, including Iraqi Army uniforms, U.S. military-issue boots, camouflage clothing and black masks, as well as anti-aircraft artillery rounds, small arms and electronics.

• Based on information from a suspected terrorist detained May 30, Iraqi and Coalition Forces detained 16 suspected terrorists during the pre-dawn operation believed to be associates of a key leader in the secret cell terrorist network.  Four of the suspected terrorists detained tested positive for explosives.
  • Intelligence reports indicate that the suspected terrorist targeted during the raid is a key leader in the secret cell terrorist network who has ties to Iranian intelligence and is believed to be responsible for attacks on Iraqi civilians as well as Iraqi and Coalition Forces in Baghdad.

But none of it was seen fit to print byt the AP over the last few days.  I wonder why?

Oh, I forgot, they have an agenda to push through and nothing will stop them.

UPDATE

Check out Victor Davis Hanson’s piece on how many mistakes during D-Day:

But as we ponder this achievement of the Greatest Generation that helped lead to the surrender of Nazi Germany less than a year later, we should remember that the entire campaign was, as Wellington said of Waterloo, a near-run thing.

Our forefathers made several mistakes. They attacked nonexistent artillery emplacements. Planes dropped paratroopers far from intended targets. Critical landing assignments on Omaha Beach were missed.

Once they left shore, it got worse. Indeed, D-Day was soon forgotten in the nightmare of GIs being blown apart in the Normandy hedgerows by well-concealed, entrenched German panzers.

Apparently, no American planners — from Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall down to the staff of Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower — had anticipated either the difficulty of penetrating miles of these dense thickets or the deadliness of new German model tanks and antitank weapons.

So we landed in Europe with the weaponry we had — and it was in large part vastly inferior to that of the Wehrmacht.

The most brilliant armored commander in U.S. history, George S. Patton, had been sacked from theater command for slapping an ill soldier the prior year in Sicily. Gens. Omar N. Bradley and Bernard L. Montgomery lacked his genius and audacity — and tens of thousands of Allied soldiers were to pay for Patton’s absence at Normandy.

We finally broke out of the mess after using heavy bombers to blast holes in the German lines. But again, these operations were fraught with foul-ups.

On two successive occasions we bombed our own troops, altogether killing or wounding over 1,000 Americans, including the highest-ranking officer to die in the European theater, Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair. The nature of his death was hidden from the press — as were many mistakes and casualties both leading up to and after Normandy.

These are examples of what today’s media would be calling "unforgivable" and today’s Democrats would be calling for retreat and surrender as they do now with Iraq.  Unless it’s a perfectly executed war, and a perfectly executed peace…it’s all a failure. 

Just imagine what our world would be like if we had todays left and their media.

Can anyone say "Heil Hitler!"

UPDATE II

Jules Crittenden with another factoid the AP is leaving out quite a bit lately:

Chuck Simmins of TDW had been toiling away diligently, recording the deaths of terrorists as reported by MNF-I flaks.  Turns out, they weren’t reporting them all. Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno had a press conference recently,  largely ignored by the press, in which he reported 3,184 terrorists killed since January 2007, and another 1,018 wounded.  Simmins took that number, subtracted the ones he had already logged to avoid duplication, and then averaged them out over the last six months. Turns out our soldiers are killing terrorists at a rate of up to 10 to 1.

AP likes death numbers.  Why doesn’t AP like these death numbers?

We all know why.  It would show their readers that yes indeed, we are kicking ass over there.  That can never happen…

Agenda to push through and all that you know.

Curt

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