So as to not take up my front page, and only those interested will be subjected to it, the body of it will be in the continued portion...

So yesterday, the kids got busy cleaning up their bedrooms, and I had a child free living room to watch some news. Clicked on CNN just in time to catch a story from Baquba, Iraq where they had a CNN camera crew following along with some soldiers. First showing a very frightened family come out of their home, terrified, with their hands up. Then it cut to the reporter talking to one of the men from that family, who praised the US troops for coming to help get rid of the insurgents. The reporter went on about it being a quiet day,...until later in the afternoon when gunfire could be heard all around.
Seems there were three insurgent gunmen on top of a rooftop that they couldn't seem to take out. What did they do then? They called in a precision air strike. But that precision air strike, wasn't so precise, missed the building where the insurgents were, and took out the home next door.

Killing everyone in the home. 17 people, 16 of which were women and children.

Now, "That's War" you say? Well the reporter then talked to the Captain, or Lieutenant (don't know by that time I was crying, and did not pay attention to his rank) Who said something along the lines of I'm sorry it happened, but we do what we gotta do to keep our men out of danger.
It cuts back to the rubble of the blown up building, and that man at the beginning of the segment? Yeah he is there, digging out the last remaining body, his 7 year old nephew. Just before they pull that little boy out, he looks up at the camera crew and shouts "If your not going to help what are you doing here!!!!"
Now, that got me thinking (after I stopped crying) about those that cry out for the so called liberal media to report some good news.
I think this video piece on CNN would have been, "good news" in the eyes of that side of the argument, had a non precise bomb hadn't murdered 17 Iraqis, but I'm here to tell you. The good news they cry out for, aint good news!
See, they want to see all those cutesy little stories about soldiers handing out candy, playgrounds being built, etc. But that's not good news folks. That's a human interest story. There is a huge difference. While those stories are heart warming and nice, they are not good news.

Human Interest Story: U.S. Soldiers build playground for Iraqi Orphans
Good News Story: Those same soldiers were able to come home

Human Interest Story: Shoes collected for Iraqi children
Good News: Iraqi Army can defend their country without US help.

See, Good news would be things like, the training of the Iraqi Army was done (actually, dontcha think after billions spent, they'd have been trained by now?) Or how about that Iraq would have more than spotty water and electric service, after 2 years of them being told it was being done. Good news would be that our soldiers had adequate armour or that Abu Graib never existed.

Some good news would be if we were liberators and not occupiers.

So much could be learned from Rep. John Murtha, if more people were willing to listen instead of clinging on to the insane idea that Bush and his merry band of complete idiots, actually knew what they were doing when they started this mess.

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