"Things are better in Iraq, King noted, than anyone would guess from the media coverage" from someone who was just over there.

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REB — 10/28/2004 2:39:04 PM (archived)

From my post below;

Things are better in Iraq, King noted, than anyone would guess from the media coverage. (King just got back from his latest trip to Iraq last week.) He remembers visiting last year and being surprised to see an amusement park in Mosul so jammed its parking lots overflowed. On this trip, he saw a Baghdad with schools and a hospital reopened. Because Americans don't see that Baghdad on their TVs, he noted, they are "much less supportive than they would be if they saw everything that was happening over there."

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Meanwhile - "The American military and the interim Iraqi government are quickly losing control of this provincial capital, which is larger and strategically more important than its sister city of Fal… - Bowser - 10/28/2004 2:36:20 PM
- A comment from a soldier in Iraq - Tom Brosz - 10/29/2004 5:29:21 AM
- Hmm. Another way to tell when we're winning in Iraq... - Tom Brosz - 10/28/2004 4:09:44 PM
  - How can starting a thread be considered changing the subject? (n/t) - alcaray - 10/28/2004 10:42:49 PM
  - Conservative doublespeak - the worse it gets, the better we're doing. - Bowser - 10/28/2004 5:44:41 PM
    - Yeah. Zarqawi is all about getting Iraqis resources back to the Iraqis. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/28/2004 9:28:13 PM
      - re: Why is Zarqawi alive? We could ahve killed him three times in 2002! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/28/2004 11:42:04 PM
        
        But he was operating in the peaceful, non-terror supporting country run by that nice guy, Saddam. (n/t) - ebnelson - 10/29/2004 12:44:18 AM
        
        re: Actually in 2002 he was operating out the northern Kurdish territory. An area we overflew daily. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 10/29/2004 7:08:41 AM
- "Things are better in Iraq, King noted, than anyone would guess from the media coverage" from someone who was just over there. - REB - 10/28/2004 2:39:04 PM
  - Damned straight - folks ignore the 5% of the country which is safe for Americans. - Bowser - 10/28/2004 3:17:42 PM
    - It's a hell of a lot more than 5 percent. Do some homework. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/28/2004 4:17:38 PM
      - How much more? Where would you and your family walk down the street unguarded? (n/t) - Bowser - 10/28/2004 5:45:28 PM
        
        Most of Kurdish territory. Some of the South. Do some research. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/28/2004 9:44:11 PM
        
        And that's what you call good news. Mission Accomplished sort of stuff. (n/t) - Bowser - 10/29/2004 4:22:41 AM
        
        Your 5 percent figure was a truckload of elephant crap. That's the only thing I was addressing. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 10/29/2004 7:21:38 PM

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