Among The Noblest Things We Have Ever Done As A Country

That’s how Maj. Kevin Kelly of Philadelphia, an F-16 fighter pilot with the New Jersey Air National Guard deployed in Iraq, puts what the USA has done in Iraq and what we are doing there now.

In a commentary titled, In Iraq, brave troops and a noble cause, posted today at the Philadelphia Inquirer website, philly.com, Maj. Kelly states:

The vast majority of Iraqi people are incredibly grateful to the United States for saving them from a bloody and brutal dictatorship. There are, granted, those who do not share this same gratitude, namely the former regime and those who benefited from it, as well as foreign militant Islamists who see Iraq as the battleground for their extremism. That's who we're fighting, not the majority of the people of Iraq.

He contradicts what US media plays up as “civil war”, saying there is no such thing as he flies over every inch of Iraq both day and night. Read the whole article.

Contrast that with this story yesterday from the Washington Post by staff writer Thomas E. Ricks. The headline reads, "Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -- Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat to Iraq's Stability."

It is so galling I don’t even want to dignify it by quoting what it says here. You could follow the link above at your own peril (barf alert).

Sample how Powerline blog’s Paul Mirengoff dismantles the WaPo on its not-so-veiled infatuation with America’s wartime enemies:

This is the Post at its worst, trying to portray perfectly legitimate action by our government in a bad light. The U.S. should be emphasizing Zarqawi's role in Iraq by "painting" him for what he is -- a "foreign threat to Iraq's stability."...As the Post grudgingly acknowledges, some tribal insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists. Every time Iraqis attack Zarqawi loyalists or provide information about their whereabouts, our troops become safer.

Mirengoff correctly points out that it would be scandalous for the US military not to highlight Zarqawi’s role and status as a foreigner. Read the whole thing.

So when we hear it said that Americans deeply resent the main stream media’s (MSM) negative---even traitorous---slant on news about Iraq, can the MSM help it if we find reason to believe it to be true?