The Growing Iraqi Success Story

The media is relentlessly concealing the truth.

by Rod D. Martin
December 10, 2003

Months ago, when Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) spoke about Iraq, fellow liberals should have listened. Returning from a visit there late last summer, she expressed both shock and relief that 95% of the country was doing far better than most people -- including her -- could have guessed. In contrast to the liberal media's hysterical portrayal of a Hobbesian world or a Mad Max movie, she described a relatively pacific Iraq whose denizens were embracing life's normal pursuits.

Confronted by Maloney's accounts and those of others, have the mainstream media mended their ways? Not a chance. As a result, you've likely missed this year's greatest story: our unmistakable progress in Iraq on a host of fronts since President Bush declared an end to major combat last May.

Since that time, the first battalion of a reconstituted, post-Saddam Iraqi army has graduated, tens of thousands of whom now provide security on the streets of Iraq. Critics may ask why those numbers…