MSM anti-USA Headline of the Day

Never rely on Mainstream Media for a first account of Military Ops, Natural Disasters or Plane Crashes. All three are among many topics about which MSM knows nothing about.

This is a great operation (it's still ongoing). The mistake by US planners is that it should have been tagged from the outset as a training exercise - which it was.

There were 700 US troops with 800 Iraq troops. Using combined airpower. Little is reported that Iraq is taking delivery of several dozen re-biult Huey H-1's. This fleeet will constitute the core of Iraqi airlift. They were used in this Op.

So next week we'll have our choosing of "Wag The Dog" conspiracy theories. Even to the point of Karl Rove planning this op as a diversion to distract the media from Haliburton's pending acquisition of all US ports.

Let the cacophoney begin.




http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1174448,00.html



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On Scene: How Operation Swarmer Fizzled

Not a shot was fired, or a leader nabbed, in a major offensive that failed to live up to its advance billing

Contrary to what many many television networks erroneously reported, the operation was by no means the largest use of airpower since the start of the war. ("Air Assault" is a military term that refers specifically to transporting troops into an area.) In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What’s more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders.