Information War Link

I've long been evangelizing the need for the Administration to put a heavier emphasis on countering and actively re-engaging in the information war (of which our enemies have been beating us at). Regardless of how well we do on the ground, the enemy has been able to turn defeats into victory by changing the standards by which we measure the war. Furthermore, they've been able to manipulate the Western media, along with certain self-loathing citizens of the free world, that the real bad guy isn't the head-lopping, woman-beating, child-killing Islamists. No, it's the big bullies who, uninvited, marched into a "kite flying" country with the stars and stripes on their shoulders, riding tanks and F-18s and used their superior firepower to stomp on the neck of a poor innocent victim.

How innocent are these people? R.A. Allen has collected a number, but clearly not exhaustive list, of incidents since we've been in Iraq, and put them into context with specific Geneva Convention Protocols on lawful warfare.

I only ask, where's the outrage? Where's the condemnation that isn't qualified with the word "but"? As Instapundit would say, it is a Dog Bites Man story. The sober reality is that these elements are ruthless, immoral savages who would take over to choke Iraq if we pulled out now. John Kerry, are you willing to turn the Iraqi people over to those that hole-up in schools, use hospitals as human shields and kill children so they'll show up as "proof" of American inability to protect the citizens of Iraq?