Finally, some good news. It’s 4:03 p.m. and MSNBC is reporting live from Iraq as the last U.S. combat troops in Iraq are en route to Kuwait where they will be transported home:
The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead.
The final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., was about to enter Kuwait shortly after 1:30 a.m. (6:30 p.m. Wednesday ET), carrying the last of the 14,000 U.S. combat forces in Iraq, said NBC’s Richard Engel, who has been traveling with the brigade as it moved out this week.
“We won! We won! It’s over! We brought democracy to Iraq!” a soldier shouted as fellow soldiers celebrated their arrival in Kuwait this week.
There will still be 50,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq, but their mission is support and training for the Iraqi military, not combat.
Update: 5:08 p.m. MSNBC and CNN are covering the story live. Fox is running Bill O’Reilly’s (taped) show. His topic: the (not at) Ground Zero (not a) Mosque non-story.
So it’s more important to Fox to suppress news that might redound positively to the president than it is to go live to cover the pull-out, which U.S. troops on the ground are celebrating and calling a victory.
If a liberal network tried to suppress this news the way Fox is doing, the folks on Fox would be calling them names, like un-American.
I’ve begun to keep a list lately of stories Fuchs Noose doesn’t cover. I plan to discuss them in my LTE to the local rag. I’m hoping I can prick a hole in a few of the balloons that the ‘bots here in GA call their brains. They think FN is the “bestest” and “truest” news network on teevee. I intend to get them thinking about why FN didn’t touch the Dr. Laura story, said little about the $1 mil it gave the RGA, and has been so quiet about our soldiers leaving Iraq. Someone has to tell them about these things. Not only was FN silent about these events, but so was rw radio and the rw blogosphere for the most part, and the local paper is extremely right-leaning. Any article related to President Obama is usually buried in the paper, relegated to below the fold coverage, and is always accompanied by a lot of rw politicians’ comments blasting the president for something. It is hard to find a really informative article that focuses on how legislation signed by the president can benefit the citizens.
The US should trade with the taliban bush cheney rumsfeld and rice for osama bin laden … that’s a fair deal.
“We won! We won! It’s over! We brought democracy to Iraq!”
If family of 9/11 victims find a Mosque offensive, imagine the family of the 97,000 (aprox) Iraqi civilians that find that above quote offensive.