I cut this from Stars and Stripes - the military news cause it is

[Joe for Clark]

just so weird.

“I can assure you that for the past several days, we have not seen any member of a militia in any of my ,” he said in Arabic...

“Ghazaliya area, before the arrival of the American forces, we had the security condition under control,” he said, drawing puzzled looks from uniformed Americans and Iraqis in the audience...

(They quote Iraqis at the end -)

However, several Iraqi media workers in the audience of Wednesday’s press conference — who declined to be identified, for safety reasons — said Iraqis are skeptical of the mission’s success, and the prospect of peace in Baghdad.

“Many Iraqis wish Saddam (Hussein) would come back to power,” said one man, who is half-Sunni, half-Shiite, in English. “Everything is bad now. Before, in 2003, no one was being killed in the streets. But now, many wish Saddam would come back.”

Another man, who is Shiite, said he did not think the former dictator would be welcomed back to power — after all, he said, Saddam killed two of his brothers.

However, he said, in Arabic, “Saddam’s time is better than this time.”



This is from Stars and Stripes for gods sake,

Joe

[CollegeDUer]

1. It's so bad the propoganda can't even handle it all

Awful awful.

[theanarch]

2. nothing untowards here...

S&S is a newspaper for servicemen and women, and as such, has been on the cutting edge of criticising the clusterfuck that is Junior's WoT; S&S has been particularly critical of Dumbsfeld and the "political" generals who suck up to him. As a mailman, i have a few customers who subscribe, and once in a while i'll do a quick read of the issue i'm delivering that week, especially if the lead or cover article looks interesting. You'd be quite surprised at what an open, objective and downright gutsy publication it can be--hardly any scandal about the military (equipment shortages, leadership failures, morale/discipline breakdowns, etc) that ended up as M$M stories weren't first reported in S&S. And their reporting on/from Iraq puts the rah-rah cheerleading bullshit of the M$M's "in-beds" to shame...

[Joe for Clark]

4. I don't know - that was from a press conference about how "well"

things are going in Baghdad from this "phase II" thing.

From Stars and Stripes -

I sure don't think that is what the military had in mind here for the story.

But yeah, they report pretty honestly, I think.

Joe

[TacticalPeek]

3. K&R

The link:

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=39543

:patriot:

[opihimoimoi]

5. OH OH, This is soooo tragic when they wish for Saddams return

Did someone tell Bush of this?

He needs to know what a fuckup he caused...so much so, they wish Saddams return....meaning the status quo is worse than pre invasion.