Nedra Pickler should know that there is a war going on. 'Ol Nedra piles on the 'more bad news' story, in keeping with the 'Bush polls at new low' theme, it's no wonder people like Nedra would think of the war as 'his mission' rather than our war. Maybe Nedra's citizenship had a bearing on the use of 'his' rather than 'our?' But I doubt it.
His Mission snippet:
Add the trouble to the continuing daily violence in Iraq — at least 33 were killed in a series of bombings Monday, including two from a CBS News crew — and Bush could be in danger of losing even more support for his mission.
If wars nowadays are measured in body count, I doubt that WWI and WWII would have occurred, and we might be speaking a different language here in North America. It's tougher on the psyche nowadays to wage a long term war when the media has a microwave mentality on fighting them, and is effective in mis-characterizing the war to all but about 33% of Americans. Can't be too long or too many dead you know. Well, how long, and how many? Because they have politicized the war so much, the answer depends solely on who is in the White House, a Republican or a Democrat.
The picture attached to this article is the reporter's admission that it was Memorial Day. There is not one mention of Memorial Day and honoring our war dead in the article. All 16 paragraphs are accentuating the negative.
I'm on the side of making sure we can live in the U.S., instead of being killed in the U.S. by an enemy we left standing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else they are breeding.
Bush gets more bad news from Iraq (AP). AP - Just when President Bush was trying to accentuate the positive in Iraq and declare a new beginning in the war on terror, a rash of bad news comes from multiple fronts in the global struggle.
[Yahoo! News: Politics News]
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