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The news lately has been dominated by the 10 Marines who were killed in Iraq.

The news has been pounding the public with body counts such as the ones found here, entitled: “U.S. deaths mount in Iraq.”

Every American Marine and Soldier who dies in combat is an American hero. Their lives each contain a story that deserves to be told. However, the body counts are being presented to the American public to emphasize the negative. While of course we grieve the death of each one of our troops, America is also eagerly desiring to hear the good news from Iraq. The Marines were killed on Thursday, and most of the major news have been running it for three days. This is not because it is still “news” but because they want us to continue to think about the liberal talking point of an Iraq pullout.

Watch the news for the next week. Every time a Marine or Soldier dies, every time a liberal Senator opens their mouth, the alphabet Media will attach this story to it as supposed proof that we are not doing well in Iraq.

I am not minimizing their deaths or their service at all. I am however showing my disgust that their deaths are exploited to undermine the very cause for which they lived and died.

Shame on you, MSM.

We are making progress in the Sand Box, and that against Al Qaeda. This is what these men died for, and today this is news. Read this article:

Officials: CIA missile strike kills al-Qaida No. 3
Terrorist group’s operational leader Rabia killed in Pakistan

By Robert Windrem and Carol Grisanti
NBC News and news services
Updated: 8:38 a.m. ET Dec. 3, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The operational commander of al-Qaida and possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, Hamza Rabia, was killed early Thursday morning by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials told NBC News.

Pakistan’s president later confirmed the militant leader’s death.

“Yes indeed, 200 percent. I think he was killed the day before yesterday if I’m not wrong,” President Pervez Musharraf told reporters as he arrived in Kuwait on an official visit on Saturday.

Rabia had moved up al-Qaida ranks

Rabia has been sought by both U.S. and Pakistani officials for more than two years. Pakistan has offered a $1 million reward for his capture. He is believed to have participated in the planning for two assassination attempts against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Dec. 14 and Dec. 25, 2003. At that time, Rabia was believed to be the chief deputy to Abu Faraj al-Libbi, al-Qaida’s operational chief and the No. 3 man in the organization. In May, Pakistani security forces captured Abu Faraj and turned him over to the United States.

U.S. officials have said that Rabia succeeded Abu Faraj as operations chief. Rabia was brought into al-Qaida by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s No. 2. Like al-Zawahiri, Rabia is an Egyptian. U.S. officials have described him recently as “top-five al-Qaida” and, as one US official said on Friday, “killing him would be indeed a very big deal.”

Number 3 Al Qaeda man is dead. This is what our heroes are fighting and dying for. If the MSM must continue to mention the 10 dead Marines- why not connect their deaths with some of the progress we are making, rather than just attach them to “2 more killed today in Iraq.”

Yes, Number 3 Al Qaeda man was in Pakistan. But Zarqawi is still in Iraq, and they are both Al Qaeda, as is Osama. It is all connected. The troops who are laying down their lives are doing so for a noble cause, and the MSM owes it to the American people to stop spinning their deaths for political purposes.

Cross-posted at Rightfielder

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