In my Dateline NBC piece below I note the lack of credibility of the MSM, noting their attempted sting at the Virginia 500 at Martinsville. That lack of credibility continues with MSM's coverage of some ex-generals who've fragged Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld over the Iraq War.
The MSM, of course, has handled these generals with comparative kid gloves. They haven't noticed, for one, the astonishing lack of coherence to their criticisms and also that these generals are ignorant of their own history.
Of course the giveaway comes when some of them recite in rote fashion all the discredited talking points made against the Iraq War, and when one notes that some of these generals were Clinton-era appointees one soon recognizes the truth in a Fritz Weaver line from Fail-Safe - "They're not soldiers anymore, they're politicians!"
Of course the MSM won't do its homework here or anywhere else, so we thus continue to get fed disinformation that hides the fact that the US is winning in Iraq, grinding down the enemy and building a viable national army that is steadily taking over combat areas from American forces, all while a new government struggles to get going and so far hasn't faltered in doing so.
In the wake of the Martinsville sting some racefans want NBC removed from covering the second half of the 2006 NASCAR season. Taking it out on NBC Sports is stupidity - albiet in keeping with many fans' pointless hatred of non-ESPN racecasting. Instead of attacking NBC Sports, attack NBC News, and all the other MSM outlets.
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UPDATES - Worth noting about these political generals fragging Donald Rumsfeld, and the hypocrisy involved, is that these so-called "officers" are fronting for a national think-tank specializing in anti-American disinformation. Meanwhile the obsolete, CYA-driven thinking behind generals' opposition to Bush/Rumsfeld's new approaches and also a look at the US doctrine on counterinsurgency should be in order as the balance sheet on the war is ultimately positive for the US.
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But of course, if they blindly followed everything that Rumsfeld said (even though Rumsfeld never fought in a war), they would not be "politicians" right? The Administration is making the same mistakes in Iraq as were made in Vietnam. The Generals, and officersin the field are getting stepped on by empty suits beurocrats like Rumsfeld and others. The pre-war intell was crap, and the way the war is being executed is CRAP.
The real generals are not the ones sniping at the Administration - it's the Clinton-era appointments, politicians playing generals. The pre-war intel was accurate and the war is progressing.
Comparisons to Vietnam are instructive in that they show we are in fact winning - we're using the same clear-and-hold stategy that cleaned out Red forces from South Vietnam to where by 1971, as then-antiwar Vietnamese poet Le Thi An put it, "everything had improved."
Yes, we are winning in Iraq, smialek316.
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