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To: Elroy who wrote (279240)	3/9/2006 10:04:52 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571885

No you're not getting my point at all. I'm skeptical that the endless doom and gloom and misery articles that John posts continuously (written presumably by those same western journalists that don't walk the streets) are representative of the lives of the average Iraqi today. No, i get your point well enough....and I think things are quite bad. You may not like it to be so, but it is. And I wish more than you can know that they were not. I would value Iraqi journalists articles more. I'm not saying things are fine in Iraq, but I'm skeptical John's articles paint an accurate picture. You'd risk reading stories paid for by the military. You've heard about this haven't you? Al

To: Elroy who wrote (279240)	3/11/2006 2:11:52 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571885

No you're not getting my point at all. I'm skeptical that the endless doom and gloom and misery articles that John posts continuously (written presumably by those same western journalists that don't walk the streets) are representative of the lives of the average Iraqi today. It's a shame no one reads Arabic here and the Iraqi newspapers aren't advanced enough yet to have English editions - I would value Iraqi journalists articles more. I'm not saying things are fine in Iraq, but I'm skeptical John's articles paint an accurate picture. Amazing, just amazing! First of all, English speaking journalists are getting outside the green zone. We get reports from them fairly regularly although not daily. Secondly, I reported here on this board one of Iraq's most famous journalists who went everywhere in Iraq was assassinated recently. I don't know what stations you are watching but al Jazeera is supposed to give excellent coverage. Isn't a portion of its coverage in English? If not, doesn't the footage give you some idea of how bad things are? But forget news coverage for a moment.......all of us have met at least one person or know of one person who was fighting over in Iraq. And usually their reports on situations over there are not very encouraging. And there is still another tell........why can't we get electrical and water service back up to pre war levels which were not very high to begin with? So many things common to a functioning society are in short supply in Iraq. Only one part of the country is really improving and that's where the Kurds live. Insurgent violence there is at minimal levels. For a long time, Iraq has just been in a bad place. Now its falling into civil war thanks to the disaster at Samarra. I am very concerned for American soldiers fighting there. They are caught in a disaster not of their making.