CNSNews.com) - In his new documentary “Outside the Wire ‘07,” former Marine and filmmaker J.D. Johannes documents firefights between U.S. troops and al Qaeda, and the troop surge in Baghdad. One segment of the film, “Anbar Awakens,” tells how the surge’s new strategy of putting troops in villages - and outside of the Green Zone [...]

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ELIOT, Maine - The images of war in Iraq that are ingrained in the memory of Pfc. Jonathan Snodgrass are not the same you see on TV. It’s not the exchange of gunshots from insurgents in the hot spot of Ar Ramadi, nor is it the roadside bomb that went off while he was in [...]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Two Hollywood directors who are part of a wave of films about the war in Iraq and the broader fallout from the September 11, 2001 attacks have said they were only doing what media failed to do — telling the truth.
Brian De Palma’s “Redacted”, arguably the most shocking feature yet about events [...]

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There’s an old expression about war: “Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan.” In the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We’ve blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that now seems without parents.Over the last few months, [...]

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By Lt. Col. Oliver North
Washington, D.C. - This week the Pentagon released official figures on how dramatically the security situation has improved in Iraq. Terrorist attacks, secular violence, road-side bombings, Iraqi civilian deaths and U.S. casualties are all down. The announcement received scant notice from the so-called mainstream media. About the only news from the [...]

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IN THE FACE OF MEDIA indifference, the facts on the ground in Iraq have changed dramatically and for the better. The deaths of Iraqi civilians over the past two months have declined precipitously. Before the surge and its accompanying change in tactics took effect, often 3,000 Iraqis would die violent deaths in a month, directly [...]

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With President Bush and Vice President Cheney warning that Iran must not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons, our media have shifted their focus from Iraq. The shift is apparent in the decision by many reporters to make a controversy out of the fact that Senator Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, voted for a resolution [...]

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(CNN) — The public editor for The New York Times slammed his employer Sunday in a column, saying the newspaper violated its policies by cutting MoveOn.org a deal on a controversial ad criticizing the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.
“I think the ad violated The Times’ own written standards, and the paper now says that [...]

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Several recent polls make for very interesting reading. Their results combined with what seems to be happening in Iraq certainly raise the question: Could the tide of the Iraq war and its concomitant, the seeming Democratic ascendancy in Washington, be turning?
The polls first. The New York Times ran a poll last month, the results of [...]

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WHEN THE New York Times poll found that the number of Americans who think it was right for the United States to go to war in Iraq rose from 35 percent in May to 42 percent in mid-July, rather than promptly report the new poll findings, the paper conducted another poll. As the Times’ Janet [...]

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