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Gateway Pundit:

Is American Media beginning to sound like Baghdad Bob?

Today's piece by James Fallows from the Atlantic Monthly makes you wonder where he is getting his information.

Why Iraq has No Army

The crucial need to improve security and order in Iraq puts the United States in an impossible position. It can't honorably leave Iraq—as opposed to simply evacuating Saigon-style—so long as its military must provide most of the manpower, weaponry, intelligence systems, and strategies being used against the insurgency. But it can't sensibly stay when the very presence of its troops is a worsening irritant to the Iraqi public and a rallying point for nationalist opponents—to say nothing of the growing pressure in the United States for withdrawal.

James Fallows, of course, is a liberal with a need to write about the failings of US security forces in Iraq and and a Saigon Style cut and run.

Yet, Fallows leaves out something in his reporting on the Iraq War- Reality!

In complete contradicition to Fallows, the Iraqi troops are doing amazingly well, "for not being ready!" Currently, the Iraqi Forces are running 70% of the security operations. According to Alsabah newspaper from Iraq (via Haider Ajina)....

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As soon as major combat operations ended, the media who never wanted to win in Iraq and still wants to lose took over reporting from the war zone from the embed reporters. Ever since they have been doing their best to create the impression that the US is doing everything wrong and is losing despite significant evidence to the contrary. We are fighting a weak eneemy but you would never know it from what the mainstream media is saying.