Don't Forget Our Troops

From The Conservative Oasis

Here's an excellent post with a simple, straight forward analogy (that even liberals can understand) which pretty much sums up my own opinion about the abysmal job the Media is doing reporting on Iraq.

Right now the silence is deafening. Iraq and the news about our troops seems to not even exist, compared to what it has been, over the last few years. And I don't think that the reasons WHY it is quiet make me very happy.

It is quiet because we have no CRAP for the media to peddle.

We have no GITMO news. We have no Fallujah news. We have no Abu Ghraib. We have no more stories about rape or shooting innocent people.

So- I guess… we just don't have news about Iraq. At least, it appears that way…

Let me jump around a bit, to make a point.

In my house, I don't pay much attention to the plumbing. Or the electrical. Pretty boring stuff, really. It just does what it is supposed to do. So, there is no "news" about my plumbing to report.

What we have seen over and over in Iraq is a news media that, as a group, and in general, was incredibly willing to report what was WRONG about our 'plumbing' in Iraq- now they are amazingly silent when it comes to our 'plumbing' in Iraq working well and properly.

The thing is though, our troops deserve to be treated better than plumbing. They are not a simple "utility" that we complain about when it does not work, and ignore when it does work.

Read more about the media and Iraq here...