Wednesday, March 08, 2006
You’re Not Reading About Iraq
...until you read Bill Crawford's NRO piece about the mass of unreported good news from Iraq.
While the MSM and the cut-and-runners pine for a civil war that, in their fantasies, would result in the withdrawal of US troops, there are abundant ongoing operations to rebuild Iraq and return full control to its citizens.
"In early February, a National Guard unit from Illinois discovered eleven weapons caches in less than two weeks, including one very significant cache:
The cache consisted of 470 60 mm mortar rounds, 360 82 mm mortar rounds, 43 57 mm rockets, 75 tubes of C3 explosives, 125 hand grenades, 7 50-kilogram bags of TNT, eight land mines, 250 mortar fuses, 500 artillery primers, 15 82 mm illumination rounds, 5 60 mm mortar systems, 1 82 mm mortar system, 11 rocket propelled grenade rounds, eight RPG, 50 anti-aircraft rounds, 20 sticks of TNT, four 12.7 mm machine guns, 1,000 7.62 mm rounds and additional items in the cache.
And most such operations are now co-operative missions combining US and Iraq forces, both in combat and in community rebuilding projects. But there is much more to the picture in Crawford's link-rich article, every bit of it worth learning.
While the MSM and the cut-and-runners pine for a civil war that, in their fantasies, would result in the withdrawal of US troops, there are abundant ongoing operations to rebuild Iraq and return full control to its citizens.
"In early February, a National Guard unit from Illinois discovered eleven weapons caches in less than two weeks, including one very significant cache:
The cache consisted of 470 60 mm mortar rounds, 360 82 mm mortar rounds, 43 57 mm rockets, 75 tubes of C3 explosives, 125 hand grenades, 7 50-kilogram bags of TNT, eight land mines, 250 mortar fuses, 500 artillery primers, 15 82 mm illumination rounds, 5 60 mm mortar systems, 1 82 mm mortar system, 11 rocket propelled grenade rounds, eight RPG, 50 anti-aircraft rounds, 20 sticks of TNT, four 12.7 mm machine guns, 1,000 7.62 mm rounds and additional items in the cache.
And most such operations are now co-operative missions combining US and Iraq forces, both in combat and in community rebuilding projects. But there is much more to the picture in Crawford's link-rich article, every bit of it worth learning.
