[Rhodes22-list] Question, Political, war in Iraq.

[john Belanger]

you all know that the solution is political and that concentrating on military tactics and efforts is not furthering the political goal. also local control, underlined, isn't a military function either. try holding the politicians feet to the fire. for instance those benchmarks recently in the news. oil revenue sharing, etc. make them decrees now. no one is against them except the iragi politicians. put the iraqi people firmly on our side by guaranteeing civil rights. take the criminals off the street and stop the arms flow. in our civil war, if you remember your history, we had to neutralize england france and other nations from aiding the south. the only winner here should be iraq.

Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:  Rummy,

For the most recent events start here: http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

Start with "Drilling for Justice" and work backward in time. Yon is probably
the best freelance embed in the theater and he's pretty unbiased. He covers
both the successes and failures. Most of the MSM use stringers and never
leave the Green Zone. A lot of the MSM embeds have proven to be so hostile
to the effort that units won't allow them anymore. Yon is objective.

Here is another good source: billroggio.com

You can sort through hundreds of milblogs but you only get piecemeal insight
of a whatever small part of the theater that particular blogger is
experiencing. I follow a couple of blogs daily, powerlineblog.com and
instapundit.com that link to reports, good and bad, as they become
available. I still read newspapers daily but find their reporting so
distorted as to be useless for actually knowing what is happening. Every
time there is an aviation accident I'm appalled at the inaccurate and
sophomoric news coverage. This war is no different.

Brad

On 6/26/07, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
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> Now as to Iraq, there are lots and lots of good things happening out
> that are not being reported. The MSM ignoring them is the real denial.
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> Brad,
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> What good things do you think are happening in Iraq?
>
> Rummy
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