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Craven Hack of the Year

Also nominated for Craven Hack of the Decade:

Dan Rather, the overtly biased, scheming, insipid, malicious Bush-hating anchor of the Communist Broadcasting System Evening "News".

He had this to say about the coverage of Reagan:

"There is other news, like the reality of Iraq," said the "CBS Evening News" anchor. "It got very short shrift this weekend."

Meaning of course that he had to post-pone another gloom and doom session of report-only-the-bad-side-of-Iraq that is standard in every network on television except Fox. Rather is a coniving liberal elitist coward, and is hearby awarded the Craven Hack of the Year award for obscene leftist politics masquerading as journalism.

Rather's win marks a departure from the three time winner, Maureen Dowd, and puts Rather in the illustrious company of former winners Molly Ivins, Susan Sontag and Peter Jennings.





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The Real War - the one you are not hearing about.

For all their claims to “support” the troops, the media continues its anti-military tirade over the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Everyday there is a new editorial, a new batch of pictures, or a new talking head wrapping the entire military system in the actions of a few. The New York Times has run a front page Abu Graib story for 28 straight days despite very little new information coming to light in the last two weeks. Senator Ted Kennedy set a new standard in cravenness, even for him, saying, “Saddam’s torture chambers have been reopened – reopened under U.S. management.”

Ignoring the obvious distinction between what happened at Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s gang rapes of political opponents or their children, random amputations, and mass murder, a real review of what has happened in Iraq under U.S. management is a great idea.

The U.S. military is the most honorable military organization in the history of the world – this was actually proved at Abu Ghraib, but more on that later – first, consider what our military has done over the last few years.

Thanks to Our Military, the U.S. led coalition has overthrown two tyrannical regimes, rescuing two nations, liberating some 50 million people from horrific brutality and daily fear. We have captured or killed close to two-thirds of the known senior Al-Qaeda operatives. We have captured or killed 46 of the 55 most wanted regime leaders in Iraq, including Saddam Hussein himself.

Thanks to Our Military, Iraqi oil production and power generation have both surpassed pre-war levels. Iraq’s dilapidated power plants were rotting under Saddam. What electricity was produced was diverted to Baghdad in order to reward Saddam’s cronies and punish Saddam’s enemies. Today, overall power generation has surpassed prewar levels and is more evenly distributed, and new, modern power plants are being built.

Thanks to Our Military, all 22 universities and 43 technical institutes and colleges in Iraq are open. Iraqi primary and secondary schools that served as propaganda factories for Saddam’s cult and fascism have a new curriculum. Today, 64,000 secondary teachers and 5,000 school principals and administrators have been retrained in modern teaching methods, and 72 million new textbooks will be distributed before the end of the school year. Our coalition forces have rehabilitated, to date, more than 2,500 schools. In every part of Iraq school attendance this year has already surpassed pre-war levels.

Thanks to Our Military, all of Iraq’s 240 hospitals and more than 1,200 health clinics are open. In fact, the health care budget in Iraq is increased 30 times, that’s 3,000 percent over its pre-war levels, and children now receive crucial vaccinations for the first time in years.

Thanks to Our Military, 90% of Iraq is peaceful and stable; the Iraqi economy is on the path of recovery and prosperity. Unemployment has fallen, inflation has dropped to a quarter of the pre-war rate, and the New Iraqi Dinar has become the most heavily traded currency in the Middle East and has increased in value. The entire northern Iraq region – an area only slightly smaller than the state of Illinois – is policed by less than 300 U.S. troops.

Thanks to Our Military, 1.1 million Shi’a Muslim adherents conducted a holy pilgrimage across the south, a rite banned for 35 years under Saddam, all in safety and without violence.

Thanks to Our Military, 170 new independent newspapers are currently published in Iraq, and the Iraqi Media Network reaches more than 80 percent of the Iraqi population.

Thanks to Our Military, more than half of the Iraqi population is active in community affairs and one in five belongs to a non-governmental organization. Ninety percent of Iraqi towns and provinces now have local councils. In southern Iraq, seventeen towns have held local elections – their first genuine elections in history – and in almost every instance, secular independents and non-religious parties did better than the Islamists.

Thanks to Our Military, Iraqis have an interim constitution that is the most liberal governing legal document in the entire Arab world. The current law guarantees equal rights for all citizens of Iraq regardless of ethnicity, denomination, or gender. It acknowledges the Islamic character of the majority of Iraqi society and, at the same time, affirms the right to freedom of religious belief and practice for every Iraqi.

And thanks to our major media, most of what you just read is probably news to you.

So, on the subject of honor, you decide whose actions were more honorable:
The Army twice announced the charges publicly in January, immediately removed several key players from duty, reprimanded others, announced a full criminal investigation, sent its best investigator to the scene for a full report, began courts-martial proceedings against the perpetrators of abuse in mid-March. The first conviction handed down a maximum sentence of a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge, to a young and apologetic Army specialist, just for taking the pictures.

The media utterly ignored the story for three months, then exploited the pictures as blanket condemnation. Fully a month after the initial photo release, the press continues to act as if nothing has been done.

Thanks to Our Military, we can be assured the U.S. Army applies standards of conduct and honest reporting far above those of its accusers.




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