If we would just quit meddling in their country their countries affairs you wouldn't find as many people willing to blow themselves up to in order to make a statement. But hey, lets just plant the rose bush of democracy around the globe at any cost since we are such a great model of how that works.

Winning? Winning what? We invaded a sovereign nation to steal some oil. You Fox news blow hards need to have your heads checked. As for all the negative talk about people defending their own country, if another nation invaded the US would you roll over like a b!tch and take it? I hope not. I hope you would be in the trenches fighting for your country next to me. I am a vet of first Gulf War. 63 combat mission for the US Air Force.

Smallwood I can see your point. Anton you are also right on the money. JoeBob I am not convinced that you know how to read.

Hey ! I almost got blown up in the World Trade Center. I had just taken a picture of it 2 days before it blew up.
headline should have been: Suicide Bomber Blows himself up, No casulaties reported.

Another piece of propaganda from the failing networks. That sucking sound is your ratings, falling day by day. Ever think that changing your tune might reverse things? But you dinosaurs never learn....

Win? We may have "won" some small, insignificant war for a fossil fuel that the cavemen wonder why we're still using, but we lost everything else.
Only a fool could be proud of that.

Nutfarm! haha that was funny.

I suppose that ABC is going to do a follow-up story on how this was all Bush's fault. I'm sure they'll link this, in their own whacked out way, to the White House. ABC. . .it's only a matter of time before you reap what you haved sowed. LOL

I am very confused. This is not a news story because we are winning and car bombs and suicide bombers are a common event in Afghanistan? Something about those two statements don't make a lot of sense.

It appears that ABC's game here is to make the enemy appear more powerful and successful than they really are, in support of their own ideological agenda to defeat the US. In this case, an IED goes off somewhere on a road used by Gates within twenty minutes, which means Gates is probably ten to twenty miles away from the blast. That means that from the point of the blast, Gates was at least on the edge of the horizon from danger. Could he even hear the blast which ABC implies came so close to him?

Likewise, the suicide bomber which ABC claims struck against VP Cheney had nothing to do with Cheney's visit. He struck at a gate on the other side of the base where Cheney was having a meeting. It is more hyperbole, not facts, from political hacks, not newsmen, at ABC.

They're trying to spin the war for the bad guys, just like they did in Vietnam. But we're on to them this time.

It's the Drive By Media at it's best!

To a liberal, liberalism comes before anything (and I mean ANYTHING) else...even making a product that will be viable enough to make a profit and remain in business. That is why they will eventually end up on the trash heap of history.

Reaction to:Reader 2 - Both parties get unfair treatment; Bush and the GOP got a walk from the media leading up to the war in Iraq. But if you don't like the ABC product then don't use it - that's how the free market works. Besides, this story doesn't have anything to do with party or partisanship.
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We hear a lot about "if you don't like what the news media says...then don't watch, don't read that paper, or don't tune into that radio station, etc...
Well the fact remains, a lot of people do, and all of the information is distributed to millions of people, whether or not if it is factual or swayed to a cause..in this case against the Bush Adm. People believe what they hear. I long for the days when truth was presented to the masses by trusted media and the country rallied behind a cause and REALLY supported the troops and freedom around the world!

How many more deaths will it take before the U.S. acknowledges that it has lost the battle for Washington D.C.? We need to get our policemen and politicians out of there, as the deaths will never stop.

One of those cell phone activated personal destruction devices no doubt. Oops! Wrong number!! Sorry

Gates should have quoted Steve Buscemi after he got shot in the face in Fargo:

YOU SHOULD SEE THE OTHER GUY!!!

The Media gave President Bush a pass? Are you serious? I guess I didn't see it that way.

How about after 9/11, the media and Dems were all over Bush for not going into Afghanistan fast enough. The truth was our military had been depleted by Bill Clinton and his wagg the dog wars.

Story should have read " Defense Secretary slips by suicide bomber while visiting planet mars."

What a close call Mr. Secretary.

preserve liberty
can a liberal!

The Excecutives at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN etc......need to watch The Glenn Beck Show to understand that we are on to their antics and deceit in so many different areas.....ie....the war, immigration. Maybe someday they will realize that their "business" would prosper if they actually told us the truth the majority of the time......

Remember, ABC is owned by Disney!
They have been creating fantasy for years!