The media is now attempting to defeat us in Ramadi, as it did in Tet:

Captain Jeffery Pool, Public Affairs Officer for the 2nd Marine Division, disputed the claims in the harshest of terms, and rebuked the media for its mis characterization of events. “Today I witnessed inaccurate reporting, use of unreliable sources, media using other media as sources, an active insurgent propaganda machine, and the pack journalism at its worse.”

Cori Dauber, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, looks at how old Associate Press Television Network footage was used to support the case for the faux “Ramadi Uprising” by all of the news networks, and little has been done to retract the charges.

Yes, damn media! Sometimes they get me so angry that I want to spit! They should all be thrown in jail! Or shot!

Or, wait... I have a great idea: let's get the DoD to pay to have only fair and accurate stories reported in the media!

You know, this is the second time through this. The first time, nobody knew what lay ahead, and the steps taken were tentative and hesitant.

This time, nobody will let it get as far as it did in the 70s, and when it comes to the end people like you will have no idea what hit them.

This time, nobody will let it get as far as it did in the 70s, and when it comes to the end people like you will have no idea what hit them.

You mean the bit where a Democrat led congress for reasons of domestic politics voted to slash the funding for the army of SVN, denied it logistic and air support in 1975 and watched it be overrun by an army of Communists equipped with more tanks and motorized support than the Germans had in 1941? That part?

I agree.

Good point Brian.

The democrats literally snatched "defeat from the jaws of victory" in a war they essentially started. (Johnson lied, people died).

For that fiasco alone, the Democratic party deserved to be cast upon the ash heap of history, not to even mention the whole 'malaise' we received at the tender mercies of the Carter Administration.

If we had a president with the guts to use some REAL "shock and awe" - a few nukes launched from Kansas would have finished this mess in about .02 milliseconds- and no American troops would have died.
Oh but wait- all his buddies in the military industrial complex (you know- the one Eisenhower warned us about?) wouldn't have made much money that way.
So instead we send the message to terrorists- 'if you attack us we might invade your country but don't worry- we'll spend YEARS doing it and give your insurgents plenty of time to blow out heads off.'

"If we had a president with the guts to use some REAL "shock and awe" - a few nukes launched from Kansas would have finished this mess in about .02 milliseconds- and no American troops would have died."

Way to make a gutless strawman argument you don't actually believe in.

Anyone else notice the sudden uptick in references to Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex(tm) in the past week or two? Did some big-name moonbat write an essay on it recently?

And now the Left is advocating that the U.S. act as a nuclear aggressor?

Somebody look up in the sky -- is Superman's "S" emblem suddenly backwards?

“The democrats literally snatched "defeat from the jaws of victory" in a war they essentially started. (Johnson lied, people died).”

I’d go further myself and say Kennedy lied. But I digress. This is the conundrum all democrats have found themselves in since McGovern was their rising star. The alignment with those that lean (slouch) social-istically will by their nature be a wall facing those that wish to do the right thing, and a backdrop for those that always appose military action.
There is a bright side to all of this and I’m swimming in it right now. This site and others like it allow people to rationally critique the information we receive from our formerly monopolized media.
The other side dives into the NY Times and pretends we don’t exist. That they do at their own peril. Fox News is a small crack in a dam that will be burst by the internet, and wireless devices. When there are more news sources than you can count, you will be left with a choice. Listen to what I want to hear, or listen to the most accurate source. Many will choose the latter for political reasons, but even those people will want to hear what the middle is listening to, and that will be the broadcast judged to be the best source, the balanced source, the reasoned source. That won’t be the MSM as we know it today.