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To: Win Smith who wrote (138523)	6/30/2004 10:04:05 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

You may now return to your regularly scheduled warblogger reading. Lately, I've been reading Iraqi and Iranian religious folk, Barnett on international rule sets and the utility of connectedness, Peters from the NY Post. I read everything I can, going for variety. But warbloggers on a regular schedule? - That's sort of a rich diet for my stomach. Things are going really, really well in Iraq, I hear, I didn't say things were "going really, really well in Iraq." I said they were going mediocrally. as long as you avoid conventional reporting I find conventional reporting on just about everything inadequate, except as an indicator that perhaps something's happening. This goes in spades for Iraq where foreign reporters, especially from States and Europe, don't get around as much as Iraqis and soldiers. Since the foreign reporters use Iraqi stringers, I might as well read what Iraqis have to say for themselves. and stick to happy talk wherever you can find it. I've been reading lots of unhappy talk. But my conclusion, as of right now, is that things in Iraq are going mediocrally - not disastrously, not divinely well - and that's probably going to be good enough.