Five Years in Iraq

Stop the war that could bring nothing but nightmares to the Iraqi.

Hi .it is oil war & evil.we must participate for stop it after five years and help every people in iraq and usa and world.

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it it is oil war ! and evil we must be stop it afete five years and help ing peopel.
Moein from Iran
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All I can say is that if America were blowing itself up, i sure hope someone would step in. I'm willing the general public knows nothing about this war compared to the government. maybe we should just let it due its job. afteralI, we elected them, maybe we should trust them. I personally know many soldiers who've been overseas and everyone of them has told me not to watch the news. These continued articles are an atrocity and disrespectful to everything that our brothers and sisters have given up overseas. I am baffled how the news has shifted and can no longer support our own troops; all they do is show the bloodshed, which is a false representation of what is going in Iraq. No one is for war, and you don't have to be to support the troops. It's time people realize that 'wishing' the devastation in Iraq will go away is not the answer. in fact, i love it when i see people meditating for peace. it's the biggest laugh i get in my day. i've convinced so many iraqi's to quit bombing because I want peace. As far as i'm concerned, it's time for the news to start writing about these heroes and stop criticizing everything they have given to us.

In God We Trust, not In Trust We('re) God. What gives America the right to police the world spreading "democracy" wherever they need resources or fear an uprising that would lower their influence on trade and hence their paychecks? Here's a tip for America, fix up your own backyard before you go destroying other's ways of life...how many are starving and freezing in your streets? how many services are reduced or simply removed because of lack of funding? Rather than being a bully, why dont you try to "spread democracy" by being a good example?

In God We Trust, not In Trust We('re) God. What gives America the right to police the world spreading "democracy" wherever they need resources or fear an uprising that would lower their influence on trade and hence their paychecks? Here's a tip for America, fix up your own backyard before you go destroying other's ways of life...how many are starving and freezing in your streets? how many services are reduced or simply removed because of lack of funding? Rather than being a bully, why dont you try to "spread democracy" by being a good example?

If we had people in office that served in combat instead of playing cards in the states while young men where dying in Viet Nam maybe this war would not have happen. When someone sends our military guys and gals into combat because he says he's going to get him for his "DADDY" I feel he should be at the front everytime a patrol leaves the green zone and starts knocking on doors. And YES IWAS IN VIET NAM. aND THIS WAR IS JUST LIKE IF NOT WORSE THAN V.N.

well what can WE say....WE let this happen. after all this is a democracy. its the American way to have one leader so that in times like these WE can blame the individual. but WE as a whole have the power to stop this. can WE blame anyone else but ourselves? remember...WE the PEOPLE in order to form a more perfect union.......

I am a former expatriate, a govt contractor who spent 2004,and 2005 in Iraq. I am also a Viet Nam vet, so I can see from experience the similarities between the two. They are one and the same as far as the world media and the US media are concerned. If we swallow the fies, the missrepresentations, tthe hate America crowd. Those who loath the military, and rush to defend our enemies and those who hate our cuture and all we stand for, then they will win and Iraq will turn out just as they predict, but with far graver consequences.

The lefties alwayes blame America, its what they do. They are full of false guilt, they hate the individualistic, pioneer spirit that made this country the great nation that it is. They have a cradle to the grave mentality, big government will save us all. They dispise free thinkers. They can't understand lodgic. They make all their dicisions on emotion. they can't comprehend reality, or common sense, They own the mainstream media. What else can I say, other than they controle our public school's, and the education that they pump into our young heads full of mush.

You can blame the media or Bush bashers all you want. The facts speak for themselves. After 5 years of war costing hundreds of billions of dollars and likely to cost 3 trillion in the long run, After nearly 4000 American dead and thousands more horribly wounded as well as hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed or wounded. Corruption on a scale of billions of dollars fighting low tech goat herders in the wrong country. After all this fiasco you can't even take a can of shaving cream on a commercial flight. There is nothing to "win" in Iraq. The sooner we accept that this has all been a huge Neo Con mistake the better.

You're missing some very key images in your edit- among them the appearance of insurgents when U.S. contractors are hung from a bridge (part of the AP Pulitzer package), and 22 killed in an Army mess tent in Mosul by a suicide bomber. Your images show soldiers only as victims -- having been there and walked with them, they are anything but!

Historically, The young men win the war on the battlefield; then the old men lose it on the conference table. In Vietnam (yes, I am a combat veteran) we essentially won the war and then influenced heavily by the media; we just left. I sincerely hope that the same thing does not happen in the Middle East. My fears are that the general public has not a clue at what is at stake there. Call it the Sixth Crusade if you wish.

I wish the media would go back to the Middle East and do news on the great things that have been done by each of the troops who have serve and are still serving over there. My son has done his tour and my nephew is doing his third tour of duty. These young men and women have and are putting thier lives on the line everyday over there but at the same time have done thier very best to help rebuild the towns and protect the people and thier children. These young men and women are fighting for everyone's freedom.

I can't say that I am shocked but not one photo of the Iraqi people enjoying their new found freedom, women going to school or using their new freedom to protest the government. We are indebted to each soldier that has served in this conflict and will serve for the next 20 years because this is working and it is one less place for Al Qaeda to recruit and train its forces. It also serves as a lesson for the Iraqi neighbors that they could be next.

I hate how everything on this war is taken out on Bush and basically bashing him. Yes, I do think we need to pull out of this war but he isn't an evil man and no one is perfect. There are many others that are involved in this war not just Bush! I find photo #27 funny because the caption describes the troops shown having a reaction to what Bush has said on the Television. Does it ever occur to you that just maybe the guy with his hands on his head is just fixing his hat! The other two troops look like they are fine and aren't having any odd reactions. The photos are good but this war is being portrayed as very evil because I have not once read here on MSN.com something good about Bush or his administration. The only thing I ever see is Barack Obama plastered everywhere and Hilary Clinton. Since they are such great "role models"....note my sarcasm.

I am personally outraged by this portrayal of the war as a useless, unsuccessful, waste of money. In that poor excuse you may call journalism all you really reported on, except the occasional nice photo of a statue coming down or a politician at a podium, all that was really shown was blood and gore. While I am not really sure what to expect from a news company that reports just that kind of biased crap. As a veteran of OIF II, I would really like to see just one news company show something about the good that we do over there. Such as the millions of gallons of fresh water my unit delivered, the security we provided for seven schools to be built in one year, the numerous medical mission that we helped out local nationals with medical problems out of the goodness of our hearts, and many other things that we as a nation have done to help the citizens of Iraq. And now it is the five year anniversary and what does the news media focus on the bad, I guess it just figures.

This is typical, the media making the war look like a bloodbath. It dicuss me to see how the media has done it's best to make the war look like a total failure, and that the U.S. is wasting time money and that we should pack up and forget about Iraq immediatly.

Sorry, it's just frustrating....