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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (187918)	6/1/2006 12:34:33 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

"insurgents" are the ones focused on killing US forces. Militias and/or "armed forces" are the armed factions of various parties more bent on killing each other over power grab than killing Americans.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (187918)	6/1/2006 12:35:26 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

On Charlie Rose last night, the lying rightwing tried to pin the image of Iraq on the failure of the media (LOL) to show the school openings while showing the dead bodies and flaming cars every night. The rightwing media spin blender is still on the 'Iraq is the Media's fault' kick. As was noted by the journalist who had just gotten back from Iraq, the situation is so chaotic that it changes everyday. What doesn't change is the absolute fear and desperation of the Iraqis. Maitlin, guest hosting for goodness knows what ridiculous reason, said that if Iraq was in such bad shape there would be people leaving the country. The journalist from ABC noted that his story about 100,000 Iraq refugees wasn't used but his story about how Iraqis like a pop star was. Maitlin doesn't care about the 7% of Iraqis who have applied for Visas or the estimated 25% of the middle class who have left or are leaving or the news reports of the huge crowds at the Visa office. It wasn't clear whether the nearly 2 million Iraqis with Visas was for just this year or in total. In either case, that would be like 20 million Americans trying to leave the country pretty much at the same time. Now that's a bodycount.