Seniors’ Group Embraces Special Week

April 9-15, 2006

Senior’s group embraces Iraq Liberation Week. Special week, April 9-15, lauds servicemen and women.

Arlington, VA — “The mainstream media and their left-leaning tilt on the war in Iraq tends to circumnavigate all the good news, the hard-won victories and clear signs of progress in our mission there … while simultaneously down-playing what the clear majority of Iraqi’s themselves see as better days ahead.” So said 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin.

In a recent ABC News poll in Iraq taken in conjunction with Time magazine and other media partners, seven out of 10 Iraqi citizens said their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead. The poll suggested surprising levels of optimism with living conditions improved and expectations for the future high. But how often does the mainstream media report such findings?

Families of American troops are requesting that major media outlets like the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC recount how April 9, 2003, was such a critically important day for the development of democracy in the Middle East. That was the day Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad and his statue was toppled, an anniversary that is certainly worth remembering.

Martin, himself a Marine veteran, said, “The mainstream media may have lost faith in what the United States is trying to do in places like Iraq but senior citizen’s I’m proud to represent haven’t. They support our troops and our President for fighting a war unlike any this country has ever been engaged in before. We salute them and laud their cause of trying to free a people from oppression. 60 Plus is proud to be a small part of remembering Iraq Liberation Week.”

For additional information, check out: http://www.familiesunitedmission.com/

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