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Recently HBO has been pimping their troop bashing farce called Generation Kill. You can see the trailer here.

Knowing what we now know about the Iraq war, that it is not Vietnam, that we are not taking the country’s oil despite the billions spent executing the war, and despite the biggest lie of all concerning the wishful thinking by the American left, that we will never win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, it’s amazing that the American left continues to write their own narrative. It is as if they live in a perfectly tuned bubble of dementia.

Before I concentrate on the hearts and minds aspect of Iraq let’s explore a quote that I found on Libertas that was made by the guy that wrote HBO’s latest crocumentary:

The co-producer of this troop defame-athon is Ed Burns (no, not that Ed Burns) and here’s a few of the lies he spread in a recent interview with the ironically titled Reason Magazine:

The thing about Iraq is that it is the same scenario as Vietnam. There’s an insurgency that’s taken hold in the population, and once that happens, you might as well leave. There’s nothing you can do. And Iraq is getting ready to explode on us. Actually, it’s already exploded on us, but it’s going to continue to explode on us and we’re going to eventually be forced out. Or we’ll retire to these super bases and just try to drain the country of its oil. But we will never win the hearts and minds of those people. …

The same thing happened in Vietnam. These insurgencies are national movements. These people don’t want us in their country. And once that happens, once that mindset’s there, you know you’re in trouble. What we’re doing now is paying the Sunnis not to kill us. That only lasts for so long.

This is man so frothed at the mouth he’s wholly ignorant of the facts on the ground in Iraq today (or lying) but even more so about Vietnam.

Perfect synopsis of frothy liberalism. I won’t bother to go over the path traveled by Jason Apuzo at Libertas; he pretty much sets the story straight on the idiocy of the above statements and how that perspective weaves its way into another shit sandwich on film courtesy of Hollywood’s anti-military establishment. Par for the course.

Concerning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people we can find stories on both sides of this coin. The American left loves to wallow in the side sympathetic to terrorists that are killing Americans, conveniently ignoring any stories to the contrary. Me I prefer to have hope. It is indeed what appears to be turning the tables on the terrorists in Iraq, hope, bravery, determination and even attrition thanks to the surge. So while the left sits in surrender city the people of Iraq are turning the tide despite the left’s efforts to turn it into another Vietnam. (BTW, can anyone on the left explain to me how you win the hearts and minds of Iraqi’s by leaving them to the terrorists? A bit of a contradiction don’t you think?)

Here is part of an NBC news report that literally had to be posted on Michael Yon for it to get any attention:

When I visited Dora about 18 months ago, it was with the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, before the surge of U.S. and Iraqi forces into Baghdad began. The once bustling “gateway to the South” was a ghost town. It smelled of cordite, an explosive powder.

Sunni residents were in hiding; Dora’s Shiites were dead or had fled to other provinces; its many Christians – doctors, architects and other professionals – had also fled to escape the sectarian killing. The insurgent town had become an al-Qaida stronghold. But that wasn’t the only threat: Shiite death squads, masquerading as National Police, had murdered and maimed so many Sunnis that the 1st Cavalry had to force the police out of their precinct and cordon off the area.

It was a very different Dora that I saw this past week, once again embedded with U.S. forces – this time with the 4th Infantry Division. Life had returned. Dora’s famous Friday open market was bubbling with people, produce and color. No one looked afraid.

Working together

U.S. troops, who now live in an outpost right in the middle of town, were not the only force patrolling the streets. So were the infamous, primarily Shiite, National Police, as well as the so-called “Sons of Iraq” – local volunteers, all Sunni, who were mostly former insurgents. It was something quite remarkable I was seeing for the first time: U.S., Shiite and Sunni armed forces cooperating for the general good.

Sunni residents, who wouldn’t have dared to be seen talking to members of the National Police a year ago, were now complaining to them about rising food and fuel prices in the market or asking for advice.

“Before we all suffered from a triple threat – al-Qaida, the militias, and sectarian kidnappings,” said Alladin Hussein, a former major in Saddam’s Army, who I met in the market. “Now we are living in stability and security. It’s like a precious gem, something very fragile that you have to take care of.”

Lt. Justin Chalvko could be called “Mr. Dora” as far as Iraqis here are concerned. He is the face of the U.S. presence in the area – he lives in the local U.S. Army outpost and leads daily patrols through the market with his platoon. He knows many residents by their first names, and jokes with them in his broken Arabic.

Chalvko said the changes in Dora since his arrival six months ago are “like night and day.” But he’s no fool.

“Even though it’s good now,” he warned, “it’s only been good for four or five months. People are starting to move back into the area, but it’s like everyone’s walking on eggshells still. They want to make sure that it’s for real, it’s not just something temporary.”

Sure, the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of 12-foot high, 10-ton blast walls that now surround – and isolate – Dora help keep al-Qaida at bay. But local Dorans don’t seem to care. In fact, most Iraqis I asked about the blast walls said that they actually felt freer these days with the concrete barriers and joint patrols to protect them.

Chalvko walked us past Dora’s reopened parks and replanted gardens, past its new library, its primary care clinic, and high school.

Bank open for biz

He explained that, at first, people just wanted security. Now they want services. He then led us to one service that had just opened last week – the Dora branch of the Rafidain Bank. A bank! I hadn’t been inside a functioning Iraqi bank in years. The last Rafidain Bank branch I was this close to was burning out of control on Baghdad’s Haifa Street during those chaotic days just after the fall of Saddam.

We went inside. There were a dozen or more customers, one in a wheelchair, counting small piles of Iraqi dinars they had just withdrawn or were about to deposit. Tellers, mostly women in head scarves, were busy filling out bank slips and attaching paper clips to deposits. The manager, all the while, was pacing back and forth, smiling nervously, from his office to the tellers and back. I guess that being a bank manager in Dora is not the safest of jobs, no matter how many troops or blast walls surrounded you.

But, it struck me that the very presence of a bank was a symbol of change. Dorans could now avoid traveling through interminable checkpoints, across Baghdad, risking their lives to deposit or withdraw money for loans on houses or cars or new businesses. They could do all their business right here, in their own neighborhood.

“Instead of looking to the Americans to help them out,” said Chalvko, “they can come here. It’s a sign that things are going in the right direction.” - (Life returns to Iraq’s ‘ghost town’ suburb)

Lefties that read this kind of stuff generally come from 1 camp where they hypocritically claim that these stories are cherry picked aberrations while using their own cherry picked stories as evidence. The only problem is that the left’s narrative is wholly cherry picked from out of context blurbs and includes little if any facts that would challenge their point of view. I on the other hand realize that there are two sides to this event in history, including that the left’s narrative completely ignores the many success stories of Iraqi’s welcoming Americans in addition to the fact that the war for oil meme has been wholly proven to be a lie.

Libs will also criticize me for not seeing this piece of shit movie before coming out against it. I have heard that one many times. The hope is that I will watch their crap and it will somehow change my mind or prove me wrong. That has yet to happen, not on the Golden Compass which I bored my way through only to see that it was indeed the anti-God leftist piece of garbage that I knew it was. The same goes for the whole list of anti-American, anti-religion, anti-military treasure trove of bile that has come out of Hollywood including Stop Loss and Rendition just to name the 2 most recent.

Given the comically stupid comments coming from the mouth of the writer of this latest attempt to skewer the troops I wouldn’t hold my breath on it being anything different.

One comment on the Libertas site sums up the HBO’s Generation Kill perfectly:

Let’s see if it fits the criteria:

1. 60s sounding music. Check.
2. Ignoramus American soldiers. Check.
3. Portrayal of Iraqis as dimwitted peasants. Check.
4. Poorly written dialogue. Check.
5. Wooden acting. Check.
6. Director who doesn’t know his own topic. Check.

It’s perfect.

Gee, I wonder why so many high-ups at HBO were fired this past week?

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