ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depicted as brave fighters for freedom and democracy.

It will be based on the exploits of the heavily decorated members of Deuce Four, the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, which has spent the past year battling insurgents in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul…

He is expected to base the film on the writings of the independent blogger Michael Yon, a former special forces green beret who was embedded with Deuce Four and sent regular dispatches about their heroics.

Yon was at the soldiers’ ball with Willis, who got to know him through his internet war reports on http://www.michaelyon.blogspot.com/. “What he is doing is something the American media and maybe the world media isn’t doing,” the actor said, “and that’s telling the truth about what’s happening in the war in Iraq.”

They’ll say anything to get elected. They’ll promise or threaten anything to get into or maintain political power. It used to be a succesful strategy. Not anymore. Now it’s possible for the average citizen to go back and review the lies, threats and broken promises and compare them directly with the truth.

Remember Democrats claiming Bush would institute a draft if he got re-elected? Ok, so where is it?

Remember Democrats claiming the Bush tax cuts “failed to create the jobs and spur the economic growth that the Republican predicted”? The New York Times said yesterday, “After four years of tight budgets and deepening debt, most states from California to Maine are experiencing a marked turnaround in their fiscal fortunes, with billions of dollars more in tax receipts than had been projected pouring into coffers around the country.”

Here are some other myths, lies and broken promises peddled by the Left and debunked by facts:

Here’s a sample of some Urban Legends About the Iraq War that have been debunked:

1. The Bush administration pressured the CIA to exaggerate evidence. Not according to a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s bipartisan report.
2. The Bush administration intentionally misled the country into war with Iraq - and the “16 words” that appeared in the 2003 State of the Union are the best proof of it. On July 14, 2004 - after a nearly half-year investigation - a special panel reported to the British Parliament that British intelligence had indeed concluded that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium from Africa.
3. There were no links between al-Qaeda and Iraq. Several sources debunk this, including a 1998 indictment by the Clinton Administration’s Justice Department.
4. The old “unilateral attack” claim. The coalition that liberated Iraq ranks among the largest war coalitions ever assembled.

There has been some debunking of myths surrounding Hurricane Katrina that formed some of the basis for criticism of the Bush administration’s response as well.

And of course, there’s that liberal staple, global warming and the Kyoto protocol. Here are some debunked myths surrounding this angle of Republican-bashing.

Finally, don’t forget the mother of all myths… the holy grail of current liberal depression… the 2000 election. Debunked.

It’s no wonder many on the Left are constantly trying to find their way out of the logical pretzels they twist themselves into. They used to be able to lie and deliver false promises knowing they’d never be fact-checked later. They could simply hit the public with a dose of bullshit and move to the next dose before anyone knew the prior was bogus.

That’s no longer the case… which probably explains the anger and depression of the Left, the mass retirements of MSM anchors, the declining ratings in the mainstream media and continued electoral successes of the Right.

Of course, liberals will prepare a laundry list of lies and more BS to explain all of this away, I’m sure.

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, “I’m so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something.”

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Hellyer warned, “The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, “The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide.”

“Time is on the side of open disclosure that there are ethical Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth,” The spokesperson stated. “Our Canadian government needs to openly address these important issues of the possible deployment of weapons in outer war plans against ethical ET societies.”

When you’re gathered with your family and friends today, don’t forget to say an extra special thanks for the thousands of brave men and women in our military who won’t be spending today with loved ones…

In early May, Wilson and Plame attended a conference sponsored by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, at which Wilson spoke about Iraq; one of the other panelists was the New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof. Over breakfast the next morning with Kristof and his wife, Wilson told about his trip to Niger and said Kristof could write about it, but not name him.

“As an employee of the CIA,” he writes in the preface to the paperback version of his book, “The Politics of Truth,” “she could have no contact with the press without prior approval.” Sitting in at a breakfast with a Times reporter in which her husband discusses a CIA trip that she recommended certainly qualifies as “contact.”

1. The reference in the preceding line is to just the three: Wilson, Plame and Kristof.
2. Kristof’s wife, Sheryl WuDunn, is also a NY Times journalist, so if the reference was to her, it seems that fact would’ve made it important enough for Ward to have used WuDunn’s name — to point out Wilson met with two NY Times reporters for breakfast — instead of sloppily saying “his wife”.
3. Finally, the entire article is about Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame and it references the phrase “his wife” 10 other times and every one of those 10 other references is clearly to Plame.

“We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning.”

“This is a lost war… I don’t believe in al-Qaida anymore. Boom. It’s finished… I think maybe there is no jihad anymore.”

Kerry, he said, exhibited a “dangerous misunderstanding of the enemy we face” in saying that Bush’s policies in Iraq have created more terrorists. “We don’t create terrorists by fighting back,” Bush said. “We defeat terrorists by fighting back.”

1. Criticism of the war is not by itself unpatriotic
2. Similarly, answering anti-war critics is not challenging their patriotism
3. But opportunistic and cynical anti-war critics who are trying to walk back their own votes and level spurious charges at the Administration (they lied to take is into war) are themselves lying
4. These lies are hurting the country and the troops
5. The burden of proof, in a post 911 world, was on Saddam Hussein to prove he�d disarmed; we could not wait for the threat to become imminent before acting
6. The cause the troops are fighting for is just and right
7. Iraq is moving toward freedom; and things on the ground are improving daily, regardless of what the MSM and prominent Dems would have us believe.

These points, taken together, form an easy, concise, andï - most importantly - a factually correct counter-narrative to the Dem / MSM narrative that has preached confusion, failure, quagmire, American criminality (torture, WP), and the relentlessness of an insurgency whose battleground savvy and knowledge of the Arab world are thwarting the plans of our confused military leaders and civilian war commanders. Oh. But we LOVE THE TROOPS!

I think the narrative is a good one, but it needs to be repeated as loud and as often as the one the Dems have been peddling.