Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Saturday, December 30, 2006 1:10:48 AM
This could have been a story about how America's brave Marines are taking the fight to the enemy. Are they taking casualties? Yes. Is the enemy? You betcha! Unfortunately, you have to work your way down to the 5th paragraph before you get to this bit of news:
"American troops killed six people and destroyed a weapons cache in
separate raids in Baghdad and northwest of the Iraqi capital, the U.S.
military said. One of the raids targeted two buildings in the village
of Thar Thar, where U.S. troops found 16 pounds of homemade explosives,
two large bombs, a rocket-propelled grenade, suicide vests and multiple
batteries, the military said."
That is followed by a brief mention about how our Islamo-fascist enemies continue to use mosques as weapon's caches and how American and Iraqi troops are flushing them out:
Iraqi forces backed by U.S. troops entered a mosque southeast of
Baghdad, capturing 13 suspects and confiscating weapons, the U.S.
military also said."
This alone seems worthy of an entire article. Instead we get nothing more than stories with headlines reading "3 Marines killed in Anbar". Hardly any mention at all of how many Islamo-fascists have been killed or captured.
Imagine what these folks would have done with D-Day or Iwo Jima.