As we battle the Defeatists on the Left and the Right, I once in a while go back in history and bring up "old news".  I do this because the Defeatists WILL not learn from history.  I ran across this article as  I was going back in time and my memory was telling me that something was relevant.  I found this:

 According to a Nexis search, only four news outlets have even mentioned “Blessed July,” which was, in the words of the Foreign Affairs article, “a regime-directed wave of ‘martyrdom’ operations against targets in the West.” All nine articles were editorials or opinion pieces. The New York Times essentially avoided covering the report or the magazine summary of it, as the paper instead excerpted a book co-authored by one of its reporters that relied heavily on the report. Even the Associated Press declined to print a quick mention that preparations for “Blessed July,” again quoting from the magazine article, “were well under way at the time of the coalition invasion.”..."

From Joel MawBray at TownHall :

 Ask even news-savvy Americans what they know about Saddam’s plans to deploy suicide bombers against the West, and the most common response will be blank stares. Ditto for asking about how Saddam’s thugs trained thousands of terrorists from around the Arab world, right up through 2002.

Both stunning revelations surfaced recently, one in Congressional testimony last month and the other in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. The Pentagon has known about these items on Saddam’s terrorist agenda since the end of 2003, which is when it received the after-action analysis report it had commissioned. (It served as the basis for the testimony and the magazine article.)

Now declassified, the book-length report analyzed thousands of Iraqi documents and interviews with over 100 officials of Saddam’s regime to piece together what was going on in the tyranny’s final days. Much of it is darkly humorous, such as the lengths to which minions would go to deceive Saddam or how the despot actually appeared to believe the ridiculous propaganda spewed by Baghdad Bob."

 Click the link provided and read the rest .  Also, note that there is only one response to the article. 

Comments (2)

Unacceptable
written by Snooper, April 13, 2007

What would be the driving force behind the theoretical "main stream media" NOT publicizing this?

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written by Dave Docherty, April 13, 2007

Snoop, you have to ask? Remember, GW Bush is the enemy in the eyes of the corporate media. His war in Iraq must be discredited, and to admit that Saddam might resort to terrorism would shoot down one of their myths, namely, that Iraq was a secular state, had no ties to Islamist terror, and only harmed their own people. I recommend The Connection, by Stephen Hayes.

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