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Originally posted by Iron_Ranger:
I have seen several articals, US and internationaly based, that would like to lead us to believe that we are losing the war.
How on earth are we losing the war? Its hasnt even been a month yet and we a very close to Baghdad, very few (relativley) causualtys, various rumors that Saddam is dead, we controll most of Iraqi air space, a large portion of deaths that have come for the Coalition side werent even in battle.
So I would really like to know why mostly left-wing news agencys would like to have us believe that we are losing the war.
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I can tell you why. Because the Americans had their hopes up to unrealistic expectations of walking in there, having the Iraqis fight by our side and take over Bagdad. The expectations were in part due to Rumsfeld and the Pentagon in the early days of the war.
The resistance that has been encountered was not really part of the preparations in our media, and we were not ready for it.
War plans are designed to be flexible, because nothing is really predictable during a war of any sort.
So basically, the relative ease of the early days was something that we hoped would last. It didn't.
Hang in there, IR, with all the reporters being fired for various errors of judgement, the real news will eventually get out.