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2007-09-07 Iraq

Maybe Violence in Iraq is NOT Decreasing?

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Posted by Bobby 2007-09-07 06:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Wonder if WaPo will take the same tack on violence in DC? Can we really believe the numbers reported by the inept and corrupt DC public safety officials, staffed largely through influence and graft rather than merit? Shouldn't tourist be warned to stay away [just as the State Department warns American tourist to other exotic and strange foreign locations]? Not that tourism is important to the economy of DC, we just want a consistent standard.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-07 09:17|| 2007-09-07 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 I will take the trend that the media would have reported increases in violence left and right if it had happened. In fact violence so decreased it seems they were forced reluctantly to say things in Iraq are getting better even if this means possibly helping Bush.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-09-07 10:54|| 2007-09-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the pursest form of idiotic Beltway bubble-blowing. As in almost all cases to date, the administration bears a heavy responsibility for allowing this b.s. to go on and have any traction at all due to their ineptness at framing an issue and simple invisibility in the daily grind of countering disinfo and bad analysis.

The "benchmark" nonsense is the most egregious, esp. the political side of course. Utterly irrelevant to how a great power pursues its national interests in a grueling and long-term test of wills with barbaric adversaries.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-09-07 20:35|| 2007-09-07 20:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Why would the main stream media conspire with Petraeus to not report the violence? Because they are all over Iraq covering the violence there daily, aren't they?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-07 21:04|| 2007-09-07 21:04|| Front Page Top

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