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Not wanting to fight over it, just reminding that a single man's view on one small part of the battlefield is one thing, and the overall view on the whole may still look very different. After all, the violence and bloodtoll for the civil society in Iraq is exceeding anything positive there may be, or may or may not have been planned or hoped for.
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Skybird, He is not just a single man, He is a Marine. Marine, thank you for serving. That is the problem, anyone that talks of success is downplayed just as you have done. Are you over there right now? Have you helped make progress or have seen progress in Iraq? If so please let us know. There are many stories like his floating around, but that's good news, and good news doesn't sell like bad news. People have it in their mindset that anything out of Iraq is bad and just ignore all the positive things going on. I am sick and tired of the people who have served there being downplayed and passed off as nonsense. When on the news do you see a story on "the progress in Iraq"? Britany spears gets more headlines than any success in Iraq ever has and it's a damn shame.
You could be doing so much good and not to many people will notice, but screw up once and people remember it forever. Skybird, I have read many of your posts and you do carry yourself well, and you and Letum arguing was funny, but it looks like you two are friends again
. We all learn new things each day, so maybe today you can learn to look at the other side of things when it comes to Iraq, especially when it is coming from people on the battlefield, not just some dumb ass reporter whose only goal is to get the worst news he/she can sell.