Corporal Taylor Baune's death was the 2,000th American casualty we've suffered in Afghanistan...though you'll have a hard time actually finding his name in media reports about this morbid body-count "milestone". I read the reports filed by CNN and NPR on the most recent of negative events coming out of Afghanistan and was struck by one thing...they didn't even mention his name. They didn't bother telling us about his background and why he joined the Marines. They didn't bother to tell you about how he married his high school sweetheart 3 weeks before being deployed. Heck, they didn't bother telling you how he died (IED).
But what CNN, NPR and many other left-leaning public relations firms were quick to claim was that when President Bush decide to go to war with Iraq over alleged WMDs, we 'took our eyes off Afghanistan'. Resources were foolishly diverted from the 'right' conflict with Afghanistan and towards an "unnecessary, unprovoked, illegal" war with Iraq. And that, as usual, President Obama had to come in an clean up another mess he was forced to inherit from "W". (that's explains, at least to libs, why more troops dying under Obama than under Bush is acceptable and barely newsworthy)
But like so many liberal memes, it just ain't so....
So, *exactly* where is alleged diversion of troops from Afghanistan to Iraq? In each and every year during President Bush's administration, the number of US troops in Afghanistan went up, not down. Troops weren't pulled from Afghanistan to support Iraq, and the facts prove it. But expecting a liberal press to actually report on facts is just plain wishful thinking. It's gotten so bad that a whole industry has sprung up to do what journalists used to do....fact-check claims. What passes for journalism is such a farce that we now have watchers watching the watchers. And the watchers, at every level, have their own agenda that they will all too willingly substitute for facts.
Corporal Baune died in what the left and President Obama refuse to acknowledge...we are in the midst of a clash of civilizations and religions. Yet instead of honoring his sacrifice with a honesty, integrity and determination, liberals want to perpetuate lies about, and shirk responsibility to, the previous administration....and the mainstream media seems more than happy to help them out.
RIP Corporal Baune.
But what CNN, NPR and many other left-leaning public relations firms were quick to claim was that when President Bush decide to go to war with Iraq over alleged WMDs, we 'took our eyes off Afghanistan'. Resources were foolishly diverted from the 'right' conflict with Afghanistan and towards an "unnecessary, unprovoked, illegal" war with Iraq. And that, as usual, President Obama had to come in an clean up another mess he was forced to inherit from "W". (that's explains, at least to libs, why more troops dying under Obama than under Bush is acceptable and barely newsworthy)
But like so many liberal memes, it just ain't so....
So, *exactly* where is alleged diversion of troops from Afghanistan to Iraq? In each and every year during President Bush's administration, the number of US troops in Afghanistan went up, not down. Troops weren't pulled from Afghanistan to support Iraq, and the facts prove it. But expecting a liberal press to actually report on facts is just plain wishful thinking. It's gotten so bad that a whole industry has sprung up to do what journalists used to do....fact-check claims. What passes for journalism is such a farce that we now have watchers watching the watchers. And the watchers, at every level, have their own agenda that they will all too willingly substitute for facts.
Corporal Baune died in what the left and President Obama refuse to acknowledge...we are in the midst of a clash of civilizations and religions. Yet instead of honoring his sacrifice with a honesty, integrity and determination, liberals want to perpetuate lies about, and shirk responsibility to, the previous administration....and the mainstream media seems more than happy to help them out.
RIP Corporal Baune.
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