I'll tell you what I told Bowser.

Go here. Read.

See what the people actually on the lines are saying about what they are doing.

This is not about the war to those who are writing all these news stories. This is about wrecking a president and his administration. Raw, stinking politics. You will see NO positive stories out of Iraq from these sources. This is not right-wing hyperbole. This is cold fact, with tons of evidence supporting it.

If there is one constant from the writings of those who are serving in Iraq, or those recently returned, from many different people and many different sources, it's sheer astonishment at how what they are doing has been twisted and misrepresented by the American media.

You heard the question about the armor from the soldier repeated around the world a thousand times.

How many times have you seen this question and answer in the mainstream media?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, how do we win the war in the media? It seems like that is the place where we're getting beat up more than anybody else. I've been here -- this is my third tour over here, and we have done some amazing things. And it seems like the enemy's Web sites and everything else are all over the media, and they love it. But the thing is, is everything we do good, no matter if it's helping a little kid or building a new school, the public affairs sends out the message, but the media doesn't pick up on it. How do we win the propaganda war?

RUMSFELD: That does not sound like a question that was planted by the press.

(LAUGHTER)

RUMSFELD: That happens sometimes. It's one of the hardest things we do in our country. We have freedom of the press. We believe in that. We believe that democracy can take that massive misinformation and differing of views, and that free people can synthesize all of that and find their way to right decisions. . . .

I was talking to a group of congressmen and senators the other day, and there were a couple of them who had negative things to say, and they were in the press in five minutes. There were 15 or 20 that had positive things to say about what's going on in Iraq, and they couldn't get on television. Television just said we're not interested. That's just sorry.

You've heard who the blacks voted for, who the Hispanics voted for, who the gays voted for, and all the rest. Try and find a story telling you who the active duty military voted for. There's a reason for that.