Greetings, CNN folk.
I feel obligated to leave a comment about your headlines for today. It has been established for some weeks now that there is an impending campaign to crackdown on security in Bagdad (you know, "the surge" currently debated in congress, in the media, and by the public), the locus for much of the sectarian violence. From other sources, it appears this surge is under way, yet, in visiting your news site, I find that “Nasa Love Triangle” is the leading story and the only reference to Iraq is a negative piece on a kickback scam run by US officers and the deaths resulting from a downed US helicopter.
What gives?
The American people have been constantly bombarded with stories and statistics about casualty rates (“grim milestones”), how the war is not going well and has been mismanaged, and is responsible for the president's and our country’s low approval ratings. And here we have a change in tactics and policy being implemented as I write this, measures that will have an enormous impact on whether the efforts for a stable democracy in Iraq has any success or failure, and CNN can’t be bothered to mention this development in their headlines? What else could you be waiting for, or consider more important? Ah yes, “NASA Love Triangle”.
Why would I not go elsewhere for my news in the future...
Sincerely,
Barbara Wester
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The CNN home page has not changed all day. As of 8:45 this evening, there is still no mention of any operations in Baghdad.
Seems they decided that if GWB was going to hold a war, nobody would cover it.
It's really shameless of them.
There's nothing on their webpage about the surge or even about Iraq, besides that reconstruction kickback scam.
I'd be curious to see a side by side comparison of all the scams like that one coming out of Iraq and the years of waste from the Big Dig.
Other comparisons might include the speech quirks present in both Mayor Menino and President Bush.
Hey, if it's important at the national level, it must be at least somewhat so at the state level.
CNN= CLINTON NEWS NETWORK
Oh well. In the meantime, since CNN doesn't want to discuss real news, here's some interesting comments from Bill Gertz:
Israel's Iran worries
A military source tells us the talk among Israeli military officials is how and when to counter Iran's nuclear weapons program, most likely in a pre-emptive attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The Israelis know that any attack will require overflying U.S.-dominated Iraq, but one solution would be to set up a secret base in another area between Iran and Israel to refuel Israel's bombers.
The Israelis in recent months have purchased large numbers of U.S. precision-guided joint direct attack munitions, or JDAM, kits for their bombs and special bunker-buster explosives that could be used to destroy underground Iranian nuclear facilities.
Our source said the Israelis know that their attack on Iran would be far bloodier and much more difficult than the daring 1981 bombing attack against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
"They will have to strike during the day to make sure they get the technicians and scientists," the source told us.
Also, an anti-nuclear military strike will cause collateral damage because many of the Iranian nuclear facilities are located close to civilian population centers.
At least 13 Iranian nuclear facilities are known and can be located publicly on Google Earth mapping software. They include facilities at Tehran, Natanz, Arak, Lashkar-Abad, Isfahan, Ardekan, Bushehr and Gachin. Most are underground and have advanced air defense missiles for protection.
Key targets: the Natanz nuclear facility, a military plant about 200 miles south of Tehran that is the location of at least one centrifuge cascade that is thought to be where nuclear fuel for weapons is being developed.
The Bushehr nuclear reactor on the Persian Gulf coast also will be a key target, and any bombing there risks killing scores of Russians who are part of construction crews for the reactor facility.
The Bush administration is hardening its position on Iran but is holding Israel in check from attacking. That said, in 1981, the United States had no warning of the Osirak raid until after the F-16s and F-15s were in the air.
This has been a long tense drama. The Iranian case is seemingly set for only one resolution, one that is going to involve a clash like the one Gertz is talking about.
I'd read a while back about the Orirak-like strike as being impossible, but I don't recall the what the limitation was.
10:45, and still nothing at CNN site.
That's because it's not in the "script".
See your little red book for details.
Almost 30 hours later and according to CNN there are no new security operations in Baghdad.
No reply.
But if you don't report it, it obviously isn't there. And how can you report on things that aren't there?
Well put from another blog:
...At least 6 al Qaeda leaders have been captured —one of them a key aide to Abu Ayyub al-Masri (successor to the late construction dumpster Abu Musab al Zarqawi wound up imitating after significant military tonnage invaded his bucolic farmhouse hideaway) —and dozens more jihadists likely killed, all in the last 48 hours, and all as part of a surge strategy that isn’t being widely reported on by the mainstream press except to note that, as a plan for bringing stability to parts of Iraq, many (mostly Democratic) lawmakers so disagree with it that they are willing to push for a non-binding resolution condemning it, the parliamentary equivalent of having their stomping feet committed to paper.
Read this:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/186457.php
...and then look for it in the press, anywhere.
It's an "inconvenient truth".
How did "children" manage to capture two al Qaeda IED cell leaders?
I'm outraged!
This is only going to further diminish our stature in the world.
How about a non binding resolution to check whether Bashar Assad has actually purchased the music on his I-pod?
Impeach the Chimp!
Forget about Iraq, front page online at CNN we've got Anna Nicole Smith's death and investigation.
Not a single mention of Iraq whatsoever.
Zip.
Don't you mean "dead boobs"?
Dead Boobs = 2
Bagdad operations = 0
Considering all that's going on and developing in Iraq, this is what a survey of headlines of the major news outlets online produces:
U.S. airstrike mistakenly kills five Kurds in Iraq
Militants say video shows 'copter crash
Pentagon 'twisted Iraq findings'
US air strike kills Iraqi troops
U.S. loses another helicopter in Iraq
Makes you sort of wish the U.S. had treated the Kuwaitis better and not gone and ran the invading Iraqi army out of their country back in 1991. Makes me wish that the U.S. didn't send all that aid to Indonesia without properly consulting the Koran as to how to properly offer charity as a kuffir. While everything the United States touches turns to rubbish, the only logical and sensible response is self hate and shame in this national nightmare we all must suffer through.
Worst country ever.
Can anyone get a copy of this?...
http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView.php?programID=905
I refuse. I'm noone's lackey.
Still nothing from CNN. But we have this:
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/02/baghdad-crackdown.html
Not sure, but I think CNN missed this story...
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660195489,00.html
Has Mr. West Taken a vactaion
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