PRAY FOR SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY who was removed from the congressional inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, with a health crises. Senator Kennedy was having seizures and was rushed to a hospital. Pray for his health and healing, and for those who are seeing to his needs...
Praise God for the succesful Inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, asking God to strengthen and guide them as they continue through this historic day...
Pray healing and strength for Vice President Cheney as he attended the Inauguration in a wheelchair, having injured his back while moving into his home in Virgina this week...
Pray for President and Mrs. Bush, for God’s richest blessing as they prepare to leave public life and adjust to their new home in Dallas. Following Inauguration ceremonies, they depart Washington from Andrews Air Force Base, traveling to Midland, TX where they will participate in a welcome home event in Centennial Plaza. Pray for their safety and protection...
Pray for President Obama's financial team as they now work to implement his financial recovery plan, asking God for His wisdom and guidance...
Pray for our troops as they work to safeguard our freedom, giving thanks for their sacrifices on our behalf. Vice President Joe Biden has told President Obama that "things are going to get tougher" in Afghanistan in the next year...Pray for the end of the fighting in the Middle East and the success of the most recent cease fire between Israel and Hamas...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Shocking News
Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!Winning Isn't NewsBy INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILYIraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq .London's Sunday Times called it 'the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.' A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul. The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convince d them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there.Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended. Sunday Times (London) reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside. Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved 'satisfactory' progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks 'a big change for the better from a year ago.' Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates ,which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, 'the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks 'that signaled political progress.'The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.Copyright 2008 Investor's Business Daily. All Rights Reserved.
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