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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 73750" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Gibbons wants Iraq success stories emphasized</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>He joins other GOP lawmakers in trying to 'focus on the positive'</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>By STEVE TETREAULT </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: #000000">STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU </B></span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/about/print/rjstaff.html#City%20Desk" target="_blank">http://www.reviewjournal.com/about/print/rjstaff.html#City Desk</a></p><p></p><p><strong>WASHINGTON -- </strong>Seeking to polish the Bush administration's message on Iraq, Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., and other Republicans said Wednesday that the American public is not being told enough about good things taking place in the U.S.-occupied nation.</p><p>Gibbons and other GOP lawmakers who traveled to Iraq this summer are being enlisted by House leaders to highlight progress in post-war Iraq and counter criticism dogging the president.</p><p>Republicans say terrorist bombings, continued U.S. service personnel deaths and other setbacks have been seized upon by President Bush's critics and magnified by the news media.</p><p>Meanwhile, they said, few are being told of peaceful conditions throughout swaths of the nation, of "bad guys" being rounded up by coalition forces, of Iraqi police growing more competent or of the reopening of the zoo and symphony in Baghdad.</p><p>"To say there is failure and chaos and everything bad is happening there is completely untrue," Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said at a news conference organized by Republican leaders.</p><p><span style="color: blue">Rogers said after he returned from Iraq two weeks ago and saw media portrayals, "I wondered whether that was the country I just left."</span></p><p>House Republicans who are worried about losing the "message war" on Iraq decided to step up after expressing frustration that the White House has not promoted U.S. achievements aggressively.</p><p><span style="color: blue">"Tales of a liberated nation getting back on its feet are buried under footage of bombings and Democratic criticism," said Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio. </span></p><p>Gibbons said he shared the frustration.</p><p>"<span style="color: blue">It's a point that people out there want to bring down the success by focusing on the negative,"</span> he said. "We want to focus on the positive to ensure this success. If we don't succeed in Iraq, we will have this fight in our back yard."</p><p>Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., conceded that the Bush administration might have failed to "manage expectations" of a speedy recovery for Iraq.</p><p>"We had a very successful conventional war, and we're pretty good at that," he said. "What we're not as good at is basically occupying a country that is in shambles and has no government at all. You're going to make mistakes."</p><p><span style="color: blue">Davis told of viewing mass graves near Babylon, evidence of Saddam Hussein's brutality.</span> Rep. Chris Chocula, R-Ind., said he saw thriving wheat fields at Mosul. Rep. Edward Schrock, R-Va., said Iraqis are urging U.S. soldiers not to "cut and run."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 73750, member: 1912"] [SIZE=4][B]Gibbons wants Iraq success stories emphasized[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=2][B]He joins other GOP lawmakers in trying to 'focus on the positive'[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=#000000][B]By STEVE TETREAULT [/B] STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU </B>[/COLOR][/SIZE] [URL='http://www.reviewjournal.com/about/print/rjstaff.html#City%20Desk'][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL] [B]WASHINGTON -- [/B]Seeking to polish the Bush administration's message on Iraq, Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., and other Republicans said Wednesday that the American public is not being told enough about good things taking place in the U.S.-occupied nation. Gibbons and other GOP lawmakers who traveled to Iraq this summer are being enlisted by House leaders to highlight progress in post-war Iraq and counter criticism dogging the president. Republicans say terrorist bombings, continued U.S. service personnel deaths and other setbacks have been seized upon by President Bush's critics and magnified by the news media. Meanwhile, they said, few are being told of peaceful conditions throughout swaths of the nation, of "bad guys" being rounded up by coalition forces, of Iraqi police growing more competent or of the reopening of the zoo and symphony in Baghdad. "To say there is failure and chaos and everything bad is happening there is completely untrue," Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said at a news conference organized by Republican leaders. [COLOR=blue]Rogers said after he returned from Iraq two weeks ago and saw media portrayals, "I wondered whether that was the country I just left."[/COLOR] House Republicans who are worried about losing the "message war" on Iraq decided to step up after expressing frustration that the White House has not promoted U.S. achievements aggressively. [COLOR=blue]"Tales of a liberated nation getting back on its feet are buried under footage of bombings and Democratic criticism," said Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio. [/COLOR] Gibbons said he shared the frustration. "[COLOR=blue]It's a point that people out there want to bring down the success by focusing on the negative,"[/COLOR] he said. "We want to focus on the positive to ensure this success. If we don't succeed in Iraq, we will have this fight in our back yard." Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., conceded that the Bush administration might have failed to "manage expectations" of a speedy recovery for Iraq. "We had a very successful conventional war, and we're pretty good at that," he said. "What we're not as good at is basically occupying a country that is in shambles and has no government at all. You're going to make mistakes." [COLOR=blue]Davis told of viewing mass graves near Babylon, evidence of Saddam Hussein's brutality.[/COLOR] Rep. Chris Chocula, R-Ind., said he saw thriving wheat fields at Mosul. Rep. Edward Schrock, R-Va., said Iraqis are urging U.S. soldiers not to "cut and run." [/QUOTE]
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