Behind the Liberal Cameras and Propaganda: A Different Reality
It's a little-known footnote in postwar Iraq that an unassuming Army Civil Affairs captain named Kent Lindner has a bevy of blushing female fans.
Every time Lindner checks in on the group of young, deaf Iraqi seamstresses at their factory here, the women swarm him with admiration. "I love you!" one of them writes in the dust on Lindner's SUV.
Such small-time adoration is not the stuff of headlines against the backdrop of a country painfully and often violently evolving from war. So on this day, when Lindner and his fellow soldiers are cheered as they fire the deaf workers' boss, a woman who has been locking the seamstresses in closets, holding their pay and beating them, the lack of TV cameras on hand is no surprise.
But later that night, mortars hit nearby. Cameras are rolling, and 15 minutes later folks back home instead see another news clip of Baghdad's latest violence. It's a soda-straw view that frustrates soldiers, like those in Lindner's Civil Affairs unit, who are slowly trying to stitch together the peace while the final stages of the war play out on television.
Read the story of what some would call soldiers who should not even be soldiers, since they would like positive press, right here.
Matt's Chat
It seems clear to me that the soldiers (hey, they're Americans!) who are actually getting it done in Iraq are not being served by the American media which seems to be in bed with the Democratic party. And worse, this alliance (much more evil than Halliburton) seems to want the terrorists to win so that they can have an issue to wave at the President.
This article further illustrates the issue of media bias. Stories like this deserve to be covered.
The American armed services in Iraq are doing a helluva job. I am proud of them. The American people (even the liberals who aren't in politics) are proud of them. God Bless Our Troops and God Bless America!
Mark's Remarks
You read further about the frustration the soldiers have when they come home and are bombarded by the negative imagery. You read about how they are frustrated at a liberal media which seeks to demonize their mission.
Now, some liberals would say that since these soldiers cannot "handle" criticism, they do not have what it takes to be soldiers. To that, I say, what the heck do you know? I cannot begin to describe what it would be like to live as they do, to risk my life. However, I have friends right now over in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they too cry out for some respect from liberals and the media. These are not weak willed people. One person fought back from kidney disease to stay in the Army and succeeded. These are not weak willed people. What they are are men and women far from home who would like people to know what they are doing, not just the sensationalist stories and the politically expedient ones portrayed on the liberal news. Of course, liberals, the masters of demonizing the military, say this makes them weak. No, it is the liberals who are weakening the resolve of our men and women with this demonizing. In FDR's time, it would be treason. If he were alive today, I confidently say that he would be pushing for some action against the members of his party (democrat) that are acting so brazenly to destroy our soldiers' morale.
Whether you like Bush or not, whether you think we should have gone in or not, our soldiers are not at fault. And, regardless of what liberals tell you, it was right to go into Iraq. Now, they will say this reason was wrong or that reason, but just ask those girls in the garment factory. They will not care, because all that matters is Saddam is gone and freedom is coming.
