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2009-01-09 Iraq

Violence toned down by 93% during last quarter of 2008 — U.S. army

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 QUAGMIRE!!!

...for the MSM

Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-09 07:15|| 2009-01-09 07:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Pull out ALL the reporters and TV crews. We simply cannot have any of these successes or stories broadcast and reaching US citizens.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-09 07:34|| 2009-01-09 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Too late, Besoeker. There *are* no network staff left in Iraq. They left before New Years. What's left is locals & the occasional embed from a local paper with community troops. Although it sounded like our local papers were recruiting individual troops of the 56th Stryker Brigade to act as bloggers instead of going to the expense of sending an on-the-payroll reporter with the Bloody Bucket.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-01-09 09:42|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-01-09 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 very good

Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-09 10:20|| 2009-01-09 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 local papers were recruiting individual troops of the 56th Stryker Brigade to act as blogger

Which no doubt made for far more accurate and interesting reporting than the normal MSM.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-01-09 12:44|| 2009-01-09 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately, it also highlights a continued deficiency in the Army of actually not doing that, using troops to tell the story by supporting blogs and blogging rather than suppressing it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-01-09 16:09|| 2009-01-09 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 93%, that's not that good.
95% would be pretty good, but 93% isn't that impressive.

/liberal bias

Posted by bigjim-ky 2009-01-09 17:14|| 2009-01-09 17:14|| Front Page Top

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