2003 Soap Box Archives

Media Missing 09/29/03

If you watch the evening news or spend your day tuned in to the
monotony of CNN you will get the impression that all the news from Iraq
is absolutely terrible with a protest on every corner and a rifle in
every window.

There is enough bad news from Iraq as it is and why it has to be
embellished and spun by the media is just further proof that they have
an agenda and not one which is very pro American.

No I have not been to Iraq but I hear pretty often from those who are
there and they’re wondering why the American media is not reporting any
of the progress which is being made. To emphasize my point let me
quote from some of them.

“As I toured Baghdad for the first time, I saw a city ravaged by war,
looting and lawlessness. Or so I thought. What I didn’t know then and
didn’t learn until later, was that most of the damage to the
infrastructure was caused by three decades of rule by a tyrant, who
used his county’s natural wealth not to enhance its power plants and
sewage and water systems but to aggrandize himself.”

“In my four months in Iraq, spent living with, working with and
learning from the Iraqi police, I’ve seen things that would sicken the
worst minds. In our hunt for the Faydayeen Saddam, Saddam Hussein's
trained assassins, I watched video after video of interrogations of
Iraqis whose lives ended with the detonation of a grenade tied to
their neck or stuffed into the shirt pocket of the victim. I watched
the living bodies disintegrate at the pull of a pin.”

“And if that’s not enough, there’s a tape of Saddam sitting and
watching one of his military generals being eaten alive by dobermans
because the general’s loyalty was in question.”

“Due to our efforts,40000 Iraqi police are back to work helping to
restore law and order and assisting the U.S. led coalition in its hunt
for Saddam and his loyalists.”

Another soldier writes,”Yes many of us will be here for a year.
However, the satisfaction comes from seeing the smiles on the
children’s faces because they do not have to worry about their parents
being arrested for nothing more than their ancestry. I have seen
reports in the American press highlighting the Iraqi protests against
the troops here in Iraq. I find it humorous that the press doesn’t
even realize that by covering these protests they are showing one of
the biggest benefits of us being here, the right of the Iraqi people to
protest without the fear of arrest or death. Right now my outfit is
located near the Iranian border. Each day hundreds of Iranians are
sneaking across the border, not to attack Americans but to get a taste
of freedom.”

And here’s a little more news you probably won’t see in the mainstream
media.

A group of Iraqi entrepreneurs have launched a new television channel
whose 24 hour broadcasts are to be carried around the world via
satellite. It’s called I.B.C. and is not affiliated with any one
party, group, religion or sect according to their spokesperson Shahla
Hassan.

People are returning to Iraq from foreign lands.

In other words all is not doom and gloom in Iraq. We are making
progress and we must stay the course until the job is finished.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels