Critics miss the big picture on our military's accomplishments

Last week's approval of the Iraqi constitution saw over 10 million people freely vote in the Arab world's first democracy. The jihadists can't be entirely defeated without that having taken place. That was huge.

Our military knocked Sadaam out of power in 3 weeks in an effort to to liberate Iraqi's, not to punish the whole nation. Do you know that our military has never lost a single engagement with the terrorists? Though many have died and thousands injured, the military never lost focus. during this, the military has trained hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's to be policeman and military personnel, with last weeks election, it is looking like things are starting to pay off. Iraq is even having more government elections this coming December.

Yet after 2 and half years of constant battle, you constantly hear that we are there for the oil (the price has actually skyrocketed and is decided by the free market) actually the Iraqi's oil reserves have come under their own control, or that we are there for Halliburton's profit or for Israel's security.

You know what has been accomplished? No more Kurdish or Shiite massacre's, no more no-fly zones, no more attacks on Kuwait, Iran, Israel or Saudi Arabia, no more assassination attempts against former president's, and now a democracy has been put in place of a terror state.

You know what we get via the media? We get Michael Moore praising the terrorists who were killing American soldiers and so-called jihadists as "Minuteman". Remember Eason Jordan, the former CNN executive said, without evidence, that our troops were purposely targeting journalists and Sen. Little Dick Durbin compared our military guards at Gitmo to those of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. We also get the crap over GW Bush's flight suit, the Iraqi museum looting, the so-called humiliating examination of Sadaam right after we caught the murdering pig, there was even controversy over his crazy sons, Uday and Qusay's embalming techniques, or reports of Korans being flushed down toilets, and the abuse at Abu Grhaib being compared to Sadaam's own mass murdering, via Sen. Ted Kennedy. Wow, too much.

There have been thousands of heroes, yet what we get is the most discussed soldier, "Leash Girl" Lyndie Something-or-other (forget her last name) and "The Professional Griever", Cindy Sheehan.

Last week the elections were held, it came off as a success, when just not even a year ago, many in the media here said it would fail. What we get is how much we've done wrong in Iraq or what a rotten President Bush is. You know what? After knocking the Taliban out of power, removing Sadaam from power, Qadaafi giving up his nuclear weapons, making way for first time ever elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, stabilizing Kuwait, Syria, lessening the threat of the mullahs' power over the citizens in the Middle East, GW Bush may go down as one of the best ever. He is stabilizing the Middle East right before our very eyes.

Last week should be a reminder of just how much our military has done right. Our unheralded soldiers need to be credited for creating freedom to 26 million Iraqi's who didn't have it before, they did this with the hope that it just might work............and it is!