MSM: Joe Lieberman? Never Heard of Him.

Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) just got back from Iraq. Again. And he has some things to say about the country, the troops, and the war.

I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood--unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.

What's that? You've heard nothing of this, you say? Well, of course you haven't. The MSM is avoiding Lieberman the plaque. Unlike most of their liberal buddies in Congress, Lieberman did something radical, something unheard of, something for which I have a great deal of respect: he went to Iraq (multiple times), he observed, he formed conclusions and an opinion of his own, and he came home and told us all about it.

What a radical concept.

Read the entire transcript here. Because I've yet to see a mainstream media outlet talking about it. But you can be sure they'd be all over it if he came back ranting about how awful the war is, and how awful Bush is, and how awful America is.

Of the Iraqi people, Lieberman says:

People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.

It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al Qaeda foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern. The terrorists are intent on stopping this by instigating a civil war to produce the chaos that will allow Iraq to replace Afghanistan as the base for their fanatical war-making. We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East, which has long been a major American national and economic security priority.

Who'd have thought that the best way to get some straight, unbiased, professional reporting on the war in Iraq would be to bypass the media entirely, and go directly to a senator from Connecticut?

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