Reflections on the Iraq War

The third anniversary of the beginning of the war to liberate Iraq has got the media in a frenzy of pessimism. They have been egged on by poll numbers showing support of the war decreasing and Bush's approval rating doing the same. It infuriates the MSM that Bush doesn't give a damn. He doesn't care what the media or polls say.

That's not the major issue though, the major issue is that we are seeing even more statements that are not just anti-war but approaching anti-troops. This is not a new development as we've been seeing the omnipresent "I support the troops, but..." since the beginning of the Afghanistan conflict. The difference is that now people are not even adding the "I support..." caveat and going straight to what ever comes after the "but" portion.

The WSJ has this today:

Yet there's no denying the polls showing that most Americans are increasingly weary of the daily news of car bombs and Iraqi squabbling and are wishing it would all just go away. Their pessimism is fed by elites who should know better but can't restrain their domestic political calculations long enough to consider the damage that would accompany U.S. failure. A conventional military defeat is inconceivable in Iraq, but a premature U.S. withdrawal is becoming all too possible.

Indeed it is. The media--by way of undercutting the war effort--is undercutting support of the fighting men and women who can not survive without it. Perhaps that's the point as they were successful on that front during Vietnam. I may not be the first but I will be the latest to say that the media is pushing an anti-American agenda by reporting only the bad (thus handing our enemy great propaganda) and whitewashing the good. It is up to small bloggers like me and my cohorts to constantly get the message out that things in Iraq are not as bad as they have been portrayed by a bitter media that suffers from a serious case of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Update: Charles has interesting viewpoints from readers.