It's been exactly 7-years since the beginning of the Global War On Terrorism. I remember, even before the war began, President Bush and all his General's and Adviser's said that this would be a very long war, possibly decades. He pointed out in September of 2001 that this enemy doesn't wear a uniform, this enemy sneaks around unnotticed, hiding in caves, preying on the innocent and killing for headlines; trying to strike fear in their enemies. He also said we would chase them down, smoke them out of their holes, get them on the run, and bring them to justice.

Our enemies have been very clear throughout this entire war, ever since they murdered 220 Marines and 21 Sailors in Beirut in 1983; (25 years ago today, as a matter of fact) preaching " ... Death to America and the American way of life!" If you don't believe me, log on to Al Jazeera TV on YouTube and watch for yourself.

You would think that a substantial turn of events in Iraq and Afghanistan would warrant front-page coverage. You would assume that if the war would swing to America's favor, there would be hours of TV Special-Reports, honoring the great men and women of our Armed Serviced who VOLUNTEERED to protect the American way of life. You would hope that if the war turned to a USA favor, the media would possibly honor the thousands who died, paying the ultimate price so they might be able to live in freedom, exercizing their "freedom of press." You would think that stories of our real heroes, both living and death, who stepped up and beat ultimate evil would fill newspapers and the evening news.

Well folks, that exactly what's happening! We're winning, evil has either run out of suicide bombers or lost the will to fight, furthermore, the Iraqi's and Afghan's are starting to realize that freedom isn't free, and now they are fighting to hold on to the democracy gifted to them, courtesy of the Red, White and Blue. A big "thank you" goes out to the Brit's, Aussies and the rest of our great Coalition, but 90% real dirty fighting has been done by the USA ... however; 99% of the American media must not find this news worthy.

But don't think for one minute that just because the American Press is missing the biggest story of the decade, that the history-making events on the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan are going unnoticed worldwide.

Below is an article, published in the Investor's Business Daily from last weeks London Sunday Times. I want to thank retired Marine Ed Bartt for sending this article to me.

Enjoy! ....

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY:

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.

Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.

Hats off to FOX-NEWS Network and Investor's Business Daily for actually covering this story ... they have reporters there now showing the changes and the great thing our Troops have accomplished in Iraq.

Don't you wish, just once, our national media would be on our side?

 

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