Still Shooting the Messenger

First lady Laura Bush, never fully comfortable with the news media, took a sharp jab at the Fourth Estate over coverage of the war in Iraq during an interview last week with MSNBC.
"I do know that there are a lot of good things that are happening that aren't covered," she said. "And I think that the drumbeat in the country from the media, from the only way people know what is happening unless they happened to have a loved one deployed there, is discouraging."
Yeah, the liberal media never report all the good news… I remember Nixon and Agnew used to say the same thing before they left office in disgrace. Next, let’s hear Leon Panetta, he just went to Baghdad with the Iraq Study Group.
“Going into Baghdad, you have to wear a helmet and a flak jacket on the airplane, and we had to drop in a spiral descent from 10,000 feet, just to avoid missiles," Panetta said. "Then they put us onto helicopters to take us into the Green Zone, and we were still wearing our helmets and flak jackets, and there were attack helicopters firing flares in order to divert any heat-seeking missiles. So, that whole thing ... well, we suddenly realized that it really was a battle zone.”
"And at night, you could hear the helicopters coming in. And I asked what that was about, and they said they were delivering the wounded. So, you realize that Iraq is a very violent place," Panetta said.
And the news can be discouraging unless you have a loved one deployed there? Some of those troops we talk about supporting (with borrowed money) are on their third tour of duty over there. I can’t imagine how discouraging that must be to their loved ones.
Bring ‘em home.