This thread discusses the Content article: MEDIA VOICES: Iraq news snooze

Violence is down considerably in Iraq since the U.S. troop surge last year. Under the old "if it bleeds it leads" principle of journalistic priorities, a cutback in coverage is to be expected. On the other hand, doesn't Iraq's rescue from quagmire warrant coverage?

No news may be good news, but success should be as newsworthy as failure. When Iraq was diving into civil war, it was news every evening. Now that the decline in violence has opened space for progress, albeit halting, toward national reconciliation, that is newsworthy, especially since the war has been a major issue in the presidential campaign.


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Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.

GO FIGURE!

Tommy,

"Now go take care of utos woody"

It seems to me on one of your gawd awful long religion threads you were bragging about how you accept homosexuals for who they are. You also said you did not allow even humor related to homosexuality? Remember?

...............Now I have a question for you............were you at work?...............were you lying then or testerday ? .........or................are you just a hypocrite? A yes or no will do just fine.

Tommy, missed you last night. Did you go outside and practice the one legged a$$ kicking contest?

ThomasK wrote:

Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.

GO FIGURE!

According to you it sounds like a great time to pull out U.S. troops.

You're watching the U.S. economy go in the crapper to the tune of 500 Million dollars a day. FIVE HUNDRED MILLION. Each Day.

For what?

RogerWilco wrote:
ThomasK wrote:

Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months.

GO FIGURE!
According to you it sounds like a great time to pull out U.S. troops.
That is the great dichotomy in their argument isn't it?

They say "It worked, it worked" but if anyone says "Great, pull even more troops out" they say "Oh, we can't do that, the gains are fragile....we don't want the violence to erupt again."

Uh-huh. That would make it like the cancer that goes into remission during massive amounts of chemo, but will come back if the chemo is stopped. So why not keep up the massive amounts of chemo? Because that will kill the patient even sooner. Choose your poison.

Which means it has yet to be determined rather it worked or not. And of course they ignore other things that were going on at the same time the surge was going on, like Iran pulling some strings behind the scenes.

None of that will mean anything, however, if the Iraqi's are really serious about getting a withdrawl timetable from us. If they say "Leave", we won't have much choice but to go...unless we want to be fighting those we are supposed to be protecting.

If the surge did in fact work, then now is the time to set withdrawl timetables, especially since we could use more troops in Afghanistan, a country that is going downhill fast again.

But you won't see Bush or McCain suggest that, which tells you how they REALLY feel about the so called success of the surge.