A recent story headline in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram said "Little Joy In Baghdad", but the story actually was about the positive results of the initiatives in Iraq, in particular the ability of
Iraqi Christians to celebrate Christmas with a great enough sense of security to put up trees in their homes and to go out to attend Christmas services at their churches.
This is not the first news report from the wire services (this one was an AP article), that I have seen that had a negative headline, but a positive story. Why do they do that? Is it that they know that the majority of Americans will read the headline only, conclude that things remain in chaos in Iraq, and decide there is no point in reading the article, thereby missing out on the real story?
Something else to think about; those against the war like to point out that this one has now gone on longer than WWII. Well, that is not exactly true. WWII stared a number of years before the United States entered into it. For Europe, that war had been going on for at least a period of two to three years.
We were also in Viet Nam for a longer time than we have been in Iraq. We had military advisers in Viet Nam before 1960, and didn't leave there until 1974. People check your facts. Stop believing the lies of politicians.
This is not the first news report from the wire services (this one was an AP article), that I have seen that had a negative headline, but a positive story. Why do they do that? Is it that they know that the majority of Americans will read the headline only, conclude that things remain in chaos in Iraq, and decide there is no point in reading the article, thereby missing out on the real story?
Something else to think about; those against the war like to point out that this one has now gone on longer than WWII. Well, that is not exactly true. WWII stared a number of years before the United States entered into it. For Europe, that war had been going on for at least a period of two to three years.
We were also in Viet Nam for a longer time than we have been in Iraq. We had military advisers in Viet Nam before 1960, and didn't leave there until 1974. People check your facts. Stop believing the lies of politicians.
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