More Good News For America the MSM Has No Interest In

(UPDATED: Midnight, 9/3/06--Fox News did have a couple of segments on this topic and I saw a story about it on CNN.com, but I still have doubts as to how much play this will get in the newspaper/print media.)

After reviewing the Sunday news shows today, which was sadly predictable, the only topics that appeared to be of interest were the Valerie Plame non-story, the Karr/JonBenet non-story, and how many seats the Democrats will win by in the mid-term elections in a couple of months. Today, Iraqi forces, I repeat, Iraqi forces, seized the #2 Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, the man who took over the reins of AQ after Zarqawi was dispatched to hell courtesy of a massive laser-guided bomb. These Iraqi troops that so many people believe to be utterly incompetent and good for nothing are not anywhere near the level of capability of American troops (then again, few are) and yes, there are issues within the fledgling Iraqi army, but by and large, they have heart, guts, and they show up to do a dangerous job in difficult circumstances, day in and day out. For that, they deserve our respect and at least some positive attention from the media.

Unfortunately, good Iraqi troops will never get any more good publicity than American troops, because it doesn't fit with the MSM/Democrat template that George Bush is the devil, that the Iraq war and everything about it was a mistake, and that the U.S. armed forces are a bunch of bloodthirsty, trigger happy savages. It's a shame, but read the whole thing from Yahoo News in the comfort that Iraqis are likely to be a lot less, shall we say, charitable and forgiving, than we Americans to "detainees" or "insurgents" who slaughter civilians and innocents. To the soon to be late Al-Qaeda #2, good riddance, and to the Iraqi forces, job well done.