[LANMaster]

What Media Bias?

Get a load of the headline on this story: U.S. Has No Exit Strategy for Iraq, Rumsfeld Says.

And then have a look at what Donald Rumsfeld actually said:

“We don’t have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy,” Rumsfeld told soldiers during a surprise visit to Baghdad, according to a pooled broadcast report from the capital. “The goal is to help the Iraqi Forces develop the skills and the capacity to provide their own security.”

No bias in that headline at all.

[WarC]

You should have seen the article appearing in one of our local papers, the Capital Times earlier this week. The article was about our state joining the suit against the EPA for failing to address the high mercury levels in our waters.

The first line of the article? *roughly, this is off the top of my head!*

"Governor Doyle says the Bush Administration has bowed to big business in not properly enforcing the Clean Air Act..."

Media bias, LAN?! Yeah right!!

[TooBad]

But of course we have no exit strategy from Iraq. We never had an exit strategy from WWII or Korea, the only one we had was from Vietnam and look how that turned out! Exit strategies are for losers.

[valley]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

What Media Bias?

Get a load of the headline on this story: U.S. Has No Exit Strategy for Iraq, Rumsfeld Says.

And then have a look at what Donald Rumsfeld actually said:
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No bias in that headline at all.

It really is too bad that there's no way to curb such misleading headlines. Its like they prey on people who dont have the time to stay informed of whats going on in the world around them. Its just a way to create more unrest at any cost, imo.

[Ciberblade]

Originally Posted by TooBad

But of course we have no exit strategy from Iraq. We never had an exit strategy from WWII or Korea, the only one we had was from Vietnam and look how that turned out! Exit strategies are for losers.

There seems to be a lucid point running around in there

[linskyjack]

We didn't need an exit strategy for WW2--we won! You only need an exit strategy for wars that are 1. not typical 2. can go on for years and years and never be resolved 3. are costing us to much in men and materiale---Iraq fits all the criteria.

[Gibble]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

We didn't need an exit strategy for WW2--we won! You only need an exit strategy for wars that are 1. not typical 2. can go on for years and years and never be resolved 3. are costing us to much in men and materiale---Iraq fits all the criteria.

[Ciberblade]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

We didn't need an exit strategy for WW2--we won! You only need an exit strategy for wars that are 1. not typical 2. can go on for years and years and never be resolved 3. are costing us to much in men and materiale---Iraq fits all the criteria.

You have listed all subjective information...this war has cost us less in practically every category. Even that of GWI.

[bassetman]

``We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy,'' Rumsfeld told soldiers during a surprise visit to Baghdad, according to a pooled broadcast report from the

[Ciberblade]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Are you serious¿

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

We didn't need an exit strategy for WW2--we won! You only need an exit strategy for wars that are 1. not typical 2. can go on for years and years and never be resolved 3. are costing us to much in men and materiale---Iraq fits all the criteria.

So you approve of the misleading LIE of a headline because it fits your political agenda?

[bassetman]

MILITARY STRATEGY: POWELL DOCTRINE
Background, Application and Critical Analysis
By Doug DuBrin, an English/History teacher and editor/ writer.

Overview:
After the end of Persian Gulf War in 1991, Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined his vision for efficient and decisive military action. His plan is now referred to as the Powell Doctrine, although there is not an actual formal document named as such. Powell, currently the U.S. secretary of state, has recently invoked the Doctrine in articulating the justifications for the Bush administration's preparations for war in Iraq. Essentially, the Doctrine expresses that military action should be used only as a last resort and only if there is a clear risk to national security by the intended target; the force, when used, should be overwhelming and disproportionate to the force used by the enemy; there must be strong support for the campaign by the general public; and there must be a clear exit strategy from the conflict in which the military is engaged.

Powell based this strategy for warfare in part on the views held by his former boss in the Reagan administration, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and also on his own experience as a major in Vietnam. That protracted campaign, in Powell's view, was representative of a war in which public support was flimsy, the military objectives were not clear, overwhelming force was not used consistently, and an exit strategy was ill defined.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/te...ine_short.html

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by Ciberblade

Are you serious¿

See above post!

Rummy said it and according to Powell it is a recipe for another 'Nam disaster!

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by bassetman

See above post!

Rummy said it and according to Powell it is a recipe for another 'Nam disaster!

It's really not panning out anything at all like Vietnam.
Not even close.

[Ciberblade]

Originally Posted by bassetman

See above post!

Rummy said it and according to Powell it is a recipe for another 'Nam disaster!

But the quote does not say that there is no exit strategy...I think you are examining the semantics a little too in depth