The news sounded ominous, with reporter Joshua Partlow openly questioning the success of the current surge strategy, stating as fact that June civilian deaths in Baghdad were much higher in comparison to January:
Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41 percent higher in June than in January, according to unofficial Health Ministry statistics.
During the month of June, 453 unidentified corpses, some bound, blindfolded, and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad, according to morgue data provided by a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
My goodness. Depressing news like this could be enough for a weak-kneed GOP Senator to flip the other way and declare that all is lost, not even waiting to see if the new plan will work or not. The problem, however, is that the statistics Mr. Partlow used are so unreliable that the article is tantamount to a lie.
Source: Redstate
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I have long ago come to the conclusion that the Legacy Media in America are opposed to this war, and will say anything, tell any lie, and ignore the truth in order to make things look worse than they actually are at any time.
Take, for instance, the progress of Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Baquoba. What? You haven't heard of it? Read about it at Michael Yon Online Magazine.
Have you heard of the AP Story about 20 Decapitated Bodies? Did you know it was a lie? Confederate Yankee, among others, callled them on it.
So, when you read a newspaper, National or Local, you need to realize these people have an agenda, and that agenda is not reporting the truth. The same goes for the alphabet soup evening newscasts. Wizbang has some thoughts on that.
I, also, have an agenda, and I hope that I am very transparent about that agenda. That is to advance conservatism and report my observations on what other people are saying. I have more respect for the local progressive bloggers than I do the local 'neutral' press. They, like me, wear their colors on their sleeves.
I will leave you with an example of the Legacy Media ignoring a story, that of the Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villagairosa, as told at Gateway Pundit.
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I think it's poignant that the so-called legacy media was assailed by the left for ignoring dissenting voices and for eschewing any criticism of the President in the days after 9/11 and in the run-up to the Mistake War in Iraq. It took us over 4 years of pounding away at our keyboards, our Congressmen, and our media outlets to get them to start reporting something less than glowing.
Here's the really bad news, Thunder Pig, Iraq is FUBAR. You can blame the news media if you want, but even if the WaPo ran nothing but stories about freshly painted schools, rainbows, ponies, and love bites in Iraq the insurgency, the civil war, and the terrorists would continue to flourish.
Blame the media if you want, but it makes you sound hopelessly out of touch.
BTW,
Thanks for the "respect" shoutout. I wouldn't be visiting your blog at all if I didn't find it to be a window into a worldview that I find utterly alien. Keep it up.
We "are" making progress in Iraq.
The online journals of Michael Yon, Bill Roggio, and a dozen or so others have convinced me of that, as well as reading the blogs of several Iraqis, who couldn't even blog when Saddam was in power.
As to the shout out, anytime I get the opportunity. I also link to many of you guys daily from my news site under the North Carolina Blogger section to make up for some of the dopey lead stories from statewide newspapers.
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