Quote Originally Posted by tony
Point being that I'll agree the media will put a certain spin on things and actually they are told NOT to make things sound peachy from military commanders because it creates a false sense of security over there.

Fatalities in Iraq has slowed dramatically since the surge in troops but as I said before the media is encouraged not to make everything seem so positive.

Statistics of the past doesn't justify any one death in Iraq, especially when there is no clear direction in which this mission is going. Personally I hope those men and women did not die in vain.
well my big thing on this war is that people will also sit here and say that bush lied to us. sadly though this is not the case. intelligence agencies around the world were all getting there intel from the same place on this matter and unfortunately it turned out to be untrue. but did we need to go there i think that eventually we would have to as Saddam was a threat but maybe not as soon as we did. as i stated in the first post this is going to take a while to complete because we are fighting a guerilla style war. something we havent done since the Revolution or the Civil War. but for anyone to say that we have to pull out now is an idiot. you can also thank Mr. Clinton for us being in this prediciment in the first place but we will talk about that some other time