“As of this writing 2,802 young Americans have been killed during three and a half years of war in Iraq
. That’s roughly the same number killed at Iwo Jima
during the first three and a half days of fighting against the Japanese. Every life lost was precious and every loss grievous to those who loved them. Unfortunately, our media intends to use every one of those killed to make their point. It’s a lesson they learned in Vietnam
. On Feb. 27, 1968, after a month of brutal fighting and daily images of U.S.
casualties on American television, Walter Cronkite, then the host of the CBS Evening News, proclaimed that the Tet Offensive had proven to him that the Vietnam War was no longer winnable... It didn’t matter that Tet had been a decisive victory for the United States
and South Vietnam
. Today’s potentates of the press are trying to deliver the same message: that Iraq
, like Vietnam
, is un-winnable. One television network has gone so far as to broadcast images of U.S.
troops being killed by terrorists—making Iraq
the first war where Americans get their news from the enemy. The war in Vietnam
wasn’t lost during ‘Tet 68’ no matter what Cronkite said. Rather, it was lost in the pages of America
’s newspapers, on our televisions, our college campuses—and eventually in the corridors of power in Washington
. We need to pray that this war isn’t lost the same way.” —Oliver North
Makes you wonder how many Democrats and media types are making plans on how to exploit the 3,000th death if it comes before the election. Don’t think our enemies in Iraq
are not aware of this and doing their best to help them out… They are praying to Allah for a Democrat controlled Congress. That is what is motivating them to keep on fighting, as evidenced by our very high casualty rates this month. They know it will be used by the useful idiots in our media and the democratic party, who have blood on their hands by giving aid and comfort to the enemy. No matter whether it is officially declared or not, we are at war when our troops are in harms way.
