Bringing Liberty

What makes the news most often:

• Car bombings
• Prisoner abuse
• "Insurgents" in ski masks carrying machine guns
• Casualty counts
• Political condemnations
• Military costs
• Usama (or Osama) Bin Laden tapes

What makes the news least often.

Damir Sagolj - Reuters

If the presence of U.S. troops only meant destruction for the places they were positioned, President Bush's words of bringing liberty would ring hollow. But the U.S. military is unlike those of other nations through history. While there is war, there is compassion and caring for the innocent. It may not make the news, but it reaches the hearts of those they touch.

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

George W. Bush

Let the cynicism begin.