The Two Biggest Stories That Are Not “Newsworthy” In The MSM News - Winning Iraq & Saddam’s Nukes
It is funny (’funny’ hilarious … and ‘funny’ queer … YES, I said ‘queer, in the sense I learned the definition of it back when it was a word on my grade school spelling list) that a certain news giant points a finger at other news giants, claiming them to ‘be the story’ … when in fact the whole of the MSM is and has been the story in this war.
They have done everything in their power not only to undermine and discredit those running and fighting it, but also aid and abet those we are fighting against.
The MSM on whole has either lied or completely fabricated stories, jumped to wrong conclusions with little or NO retractions, or completely ignored the news of this war when it proved them wrong, and by that, obviously doesn’t fit their agenda.
This is their way of trying to control the public’s perception and opinion. Their way of mind control … or even downright ‘lobotomy by MSM’ of the masses.
Which is why their ratings are in the septic tank, and their stock is so much over-used kitty litter.
Too fucking bad …
We have the internet … and the truth.
Winning Isn’t News
(IBD)
Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn’t tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we’ve defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq.
London’s Sunday Times called it “the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.” A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.
The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank President Bush’s surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.
We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.
Al-Qaida’s loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.
Now, in Operation Lion’s Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.
Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.
Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government has achieved “satisfactory” progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks — a big change for the better from a year ago.
Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates, which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad — an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.
But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, “the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks” that signaled political progress.
The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don’t seem to consider this historic event a big story.
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Saddam’s Nukes
(IBD)
WMD: Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn’t fit the media’s neat story line that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003.
It’s a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad.
In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel — thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region.
This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP reported, this marks a “significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy.”
Seems to us this should be big news.
After all, much of the early opposition to the war in Iraq involved claims that President Bush “lied” about weapons of mass destruction and that Saddam posed little if any nuclear threat to the U.S.
This more or less proves Saddam in 2003 had a program on hold for building WMD and that he planned to boot it up again soon.
This is clear, since Saddam acquired most of his uranium before 1991, but still had it in 2003, when invading U.S. troops found the stuff. (The International Atomic Energy Agency seems to have known about the yellowcake in the 1990s, but did nothing to force Saddam to get rid of it. It’s duplicating its error today with Iran and North Korea).
That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush’s decision to invade.
The American Thinker Web site reported four years ago on the scary math behind Saddam’s uranium hoard: 500 tons of yellowcake, once refined, could make 142 nuclear weapons.
But yellowcake wasn’t all they found at Tuwaitha. According to the AP, the military also discovered “four devices for controlled radiation exposure . . . that could potentially be used in a weapon.”
By the way, this should put to rest the canard peddled by the American left and by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that “Bush lied” about Iraq seeking yellowcake from the African country of Niger.
Given what we know, including comments by officials in Niger’s government, Iraq did make overtures to buy uranium. And it’s quite possible all or part of the 550 tons came from there.
What’s more, if Bush hadn’t acted, we might today see a nuclear Iraq, an Iran on the way to having a weapon, Libya with an expanded nuclear program, and Syria — with its close ties to Saddam — on the way to having a nuke.
Of equal concern is why the media ignored this good news coming from Iraq. It seems to be of a piece with how they’ve treated other recent positive developments in Iraq (see editorial below).
We ask again — why aren’t you seeing and hearing more about this? The reason is simple: The mainstream media find it inconveniently contradicts the story they have been telling you for years.
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The MSM are in the tank for Obama. They want him to win at all costs. They will lie, omit the truth or completely ignore facts if it suits their purpose. You should read who wrote the story before deciding if it’s worth reading.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:41 amDamn I love IBD, they have the best editorial section.
July 8th, 2008 at 5:49 amThe yellow cake story is old news, really. I heard about it in 03 or 04.
We also found centrifuges that were buried.
Anyone remember the video of the UN being shot at in 98 when they ran across some of the nuke equipment?
History will prove President Bush was correct as we formally entered this long war.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:27 amWell at least there is some acknowledgment of success albeit to a limited audience. You just have to find your own news, that is why we come here and other places.
To say the MSM has been complicit and facilitating of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban is putting it mildly.
However, the problem I find with this situation is the military culture of getting the job done is not designed for patting oneself on the back, which they should have done loudly and thoroughly at each new discovery, that isn’t the war fighters’ job they have enough to do it is all the rear-echelon types that needed to be screaming about the successes.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:42 amI read these stories and remember back to local radio host Bryan Suits, and the “amazing caller” who confronted a “peace activist” on his show- best 5 minutes of my commute back in 2003. Bryan is now in Pats neck of the woods I believe (L A) on KFI radio 640. If you hadn’t heard it,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75w4XIO9tHU
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Suits
There is a false caller discount, but wiki fails to counter that the “Iraqi” caller is most likely a Kurdish refugee.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:57 amIt is a shame we can’t get truthful, complete news from the big sources anymore. Just think if every American knew about these 2 stories…Bush’s approval rating soar, the military would be praised, and Hussein would be a circus side show instead of serious candidate. Thank God for the internet, this website, and the great people that read and post here.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:48 amMarc makes excellent points. I was angered early on during OIF when enemy KIA were never reported by the military. I think this is another mislearned lesson from vietnam, ie “we dont do body counts”. Dont count enemy bodies as the sole metric of success but do, in the normal course of making press releases, report bad guys KIA. Its good for morale and bad for enemy moral and makes the enemy realize the futility of fighting. It also helps win the propaganda war against the democrats at home.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:04 amQueer is a good word for it.
The US is in an internal (metaphorical, so far) fight to the death, between good and evil.
On the one side are those who hate themselves so much that they want to destroy all that is decent and good. Problem is they are too spiteful and chicken-shit just to kill themselves.
On the other side is the rest of us; nearly all paralyzed and brainwashed into politically correct oblivion.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:35 pmSeriously, Kill Your Television.
July 8th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Tom in CO. What television? We have a Feb 1988 model RCA that will be even more useless after the switch to digital. I’m sure I’ll have to cave to the pressure 
from my better half 
for a new one. I very rarely watch it and have no plans to do otherwise. We had a large satellite dish that I used to watch the news backhaul feeds to New York in the afternoon before the nightly news. One day there was a politician giving a speech that ran from start to finish and when the sound bite ran on the evening “news” less than half an hour later he “said” the exact opposite. This was on a major news network in prime time. I learned something that day that I’ve never forgotten. Just wish that I had taped it to remind myself that I had seen what the “news” did that day.
July 8th, 2008 at 6:14 pmI was eligible for the draft to serve in Vietnam and as I was going through school before I turned 18, every day that I came home Dad would have the evening news on with Walter Concrete counting up the score and telling us the way it was, which later in life I found out that he was just telling it the way he wanted it to be. I don’t trust the “news” anymore. I surf the web from this great site and others. In a day or two, maybe a week if at all, my coworkers will read about it and tell me about the “new” event that happened. The information is out there if people will only seek it out. Not very many do in my opinion.