But the media are NOT responsible for this war. You can't win friends in Iraq by militarily invading and occupying their country on false charges, e.g. WMD, 9-11 connections, yellowcake, Prague meetings, etc. There is NO WAY we can befriend Iraqis or anybody else with such an unbelievably belligerent, bellicose foreign policy.

If the U.S. was winning anything over there, don't tell me these media over here are going to bury it with bad news. Not gonna happen. They don't report anything good because not much good is happening over there. I'm as happy as anyone that Zarqawi is dead. Good riddance. But why was he there at all?? Because dimwit Dubby invaded Iraq with a tiny army and left the borders as porous as oatmeal and then acted like he never saw the insurgency coming--because he didn't. Okay, we got Zarqawi, hooray, now could we get back to actually trying to fight and win this war we started and can't stop?

What possible reason do the Iraqis have to like us?? We've ruined their economy, halted their lives and their progress, created an extremely valuable training ground for terrorists, gotten tens if not hundreds of thousands of them killed, we've killed and tortured many of them ourselves. I mean, I don't see how that would make Iraqis like us, do you?

Now how is the media's reporting of this make it in any wise biased? You want the media to report the good things? So do I. Here are a few examples of some good things I would like to see getting reported:

-Generals getting enough troops to accomplish something other than becoming convenient targets for IEDs.

-Fresh, better-trained troops that can fight battles and win hearts and minds.

-The insurgency being quelled.

-The militias disbanded.

-The new govt maintaining a well-trained, well-equipped military able to handle its own affairs and quell domestic disturbances and threats from foreign adversaries.

-All the terrorist leaders captured, tried and executed.

-Victory being declared.

-Our troops coming home.

Sound like too much to ask? Well, that's at least as much as it will take to get this job done. So until I start seeing these types of headlines, I don't think the media have much of anything good to report from Iraq, quite frankly.