If Iraq is Stabilizing and Improving, Why Isn't the Media Documenting It?

[chlamor]

If Iraq is stabilizing and improving, why isn't the media documenting it?

Stan Moore

Monday 28 March 2005

"The U.S. government continues to claim that there is good news in Iraq. The Iraqis, they say, are self-governing, with their own improved security forces and things are getting better.

Why are not the journalists of America and the world prowling the streets of Fallujah and Tikrit and Basra and showing the commerce and the oil production and the lives of ordinary Iraqis?

If Iraq is back to normal, or getting better and safer, why cannot we see it on our television screens? Why are the journalists still holed up in hotels and the bureaucrats and even Iraqi government officials still holed up in the Green Zone?

When will Fallujah be rebuilt and become an open city? When will Baghdad have 24 hours of electricity per day? When will foreign military forces leave and allow Iraqis to completely control Iraq?

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10726

[Guckert]

1. Iraq is smaller than Texas and there are over 60 bombings per day

i'm sure that even a hard core Repukelican would find that a little disappointing if it where here in the Good Old US of A. I wonder why we cannot get good press out of Iraq...DUH!!!!! :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:
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[Ms. Clio]

2. Because they are lazy, hate-filled libruls

so they spitefully refuse to provide the many, many proofs of the divine blessings that the U.S. has showered on the Iraqis.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. The Clenis will not let the good news get out.

The mighty eye of the Clenis controls all media. And the Jews.

The Clenis and the Jews. And the Elite.

The Clenis and the nJews and the Elite mcontrol all the media. And the Feminazis.

Sigh. The Clenis, the Jews, the Elite and the Feminazis control all the media. And the homosexuals.

I give up.

[bvar22]

4. Good question.

Recommended!

[chlamor]

6. According to Juan Cole

By the way, if there are 60 attacks a day, why do I only read about 7 or 8 of them?

A different kind of violence < http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=617800 >, social violence, broke out on Sunday. About 50 building guards demonstrated outside the ministry of Science and Technology, protesting that they had not been paid their salaries in full. Bodyguards for the minister, Rashad Mandan Omar, shot into the crowd and killed one. Generally, I'd say you want to avoid killing the people who guard your building if you are a cabinet minister in Iraq (many ministers have had assassination attempts on their lives). In fact, I'd say if you made sure anyone was paid, it should be the guards outside your building. (Does this mean the Iraqi government is broke, having been badly hurt by oil pipeline sabotage?)

This incident shows how horrible and jumpy the atmosphere is in Iraq.
Guerrillas killed 16 persons in Iraq on Sunday < http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=da...
cusoniraq/2005/March/focusoniraq_March134.xml§ion=focuso ... > , including three members of the Badr Corps in a drive-by shooting at Baquba. The Badr Corps is the paramilitary of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shiite party that is one of two big winners in the recent parliamentary elections. Badr itself ran on the United Iraqi Alliance slate as a political party, the Badr Organization.

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[Steel City Slim]

5. Did You Forget?

The media are nothing but rotten liberals who exist only to make George and his fellow compassionate conservatives look bad.

[bvar22]

7. kick

looing for another nomination
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