I keep hearing right-wing pundits say that news outlets don't tell the American people the good things that are happening in Iraq.

If you have a "good news in Iraq" story, please post it here and cite the source.

Thanks.

9/1/2005 10:52:15 PM

Sorry, there will be no news from Iraq until hurricane Katrina's aftermath gets boring.

9/1/2005 11:01:21 PM

http://afreeiraqi.blogspot.com/

9/1/2005 11:13:51 PM

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"http://afreeiraqi.blogspot.com/"

I didn't see any good news there, just death and melons.

9/1/2005 11:36:26 PM

Duh, the people are liberated.

They are literally chock full of liberty.

9/2/2005 2:27:45 AM

lets see - a murderous dictator was dethroned. The people participated in elections - which is the first step towards civilised rule. Women are less likely to be raped by the Iraq army.......

SOUNDS FUCKIGN GOOD TO ME!

But you are right Pridery – war solves NOTHING>

9/2/2005 7:29:45 AM

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"Women are less likely to be raped by the Iraq army......."

of course their chances of being raped by an American army increased by infinity (i.e. 0% to __ )

[Edited on September 2, 2005 at 7:42 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2005 7:36:14 AM

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"which is the first step towards civilised rule."

amazingly the second step towards "civilised rule" is going to be the creation of another islamic theocracy in the region

woo-hoo!

9/2/2005 8:14:40 AM

^ i know, right?

do tell me, how many american servicemen are raping iraqi women, though? are you trying to compare our beloved troops to that of the iraqi's formerly corrupt system?

9/2/2005 8:17:17 AM

1. Some towns have their first paved roads and schools.
2. Secured the oil pipeline and fields
3. More Iraqis are being trained every day so that the US can pull out possibly as soon as next year.
4. Removed any threat that Sadam represented to the US and to the rest of the World.
5. Stopped some funding to terrorist organizations.
6. Giving every Iraqi province a say in the Iraqi law system, not just the radicals.
7. No more mass murders, rapes, tortures, or any other intentional pain caused by Sadam.

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

Remember, for every story that the media has with a citizen complaining, you could also find a citizen applauding.

9/2/2005 11:11:03 AM

^ I wish they would pave our roads instead of Iraq's

and secure our oil pipelines

9/2/2005 12:01:55 PM

I generally like "no more mass murders and rapes."

9/2/2005 12:27:46 PM

hahahha


But seriously, I think there's a lot more people being killed on a day to day basis in Iraq since the war's been started.

9/2/2005 12:32:28 PM

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"Sorry, there will be no news from Iraq until hurricane Katrina's aftermath gets boring"

Too late it already is. At least for me. Now that the hurricane is gone I could care less about the "human condition". They saw the hurricane coming. This isn't the Galveston hurricane of 1900 (and even the they had warning but the US Government had their head in the sand).

9/2/2005 12:32:36 PM

Oil prices went down, which is something liberals were saying was the real reason Bush went to war.

9/2/2005 12:49:34 PM

Iraq war is unwinnable:

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"More than a dozen current and former intelligence officers knowledgeable about Iraq spoke with TIME in recent weeks to share details about the conflict, and they voiced their growing frustration with a war that they feel was not properly anticipated by the Bush Administration. The officers believe its a war fought with insufficient resources and a war that almost all of them now believe is not winnable militarily."

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"More than a dozen current and former intelligence officers knowledgeable about Iraq spoke with TIME in recent weeks to share details about the conflict. They voiced their growing frustration with a war that they feel was not properly anticipated by the Bush Administration, a war fought with insufficient resources, a war that almost all of them now believe is not winnable militarily. "We're good at fighting armies, but we don't know how to do this," says a recently retired four-star general with Middle East experience. "We don't have enough intelligence analysts working on this problem. The Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] puts most of its emphasis and its assets on Iran, North Korea and China. The Iraqi insurgency is simply not top priority, and that's a damn shame." The intelligence officers stressed these points: [...] The accumulation of blunders has led a Pentagon guerrilla-warfare expert to conclude, "We are repeating every mistake we made in Vietnam.""

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"Intelligence experts can't credibly estimate the rebels' numbers but say most are Iraqis. Foreigners account for perhaps 2% of the suspected guerrillas who have been captured or killed, although they represent the vast majority of suicide bombers. ("They are ordnance," a U.S. intelligence official says.) The level of violence has been growing steadily. There have been roughly 80 attacks a day in recent weeks. Suicide bombs killed more than 200 people, mostly in Baghdad, during four days of carnage last week, among the deadliest since Saddam's fall."

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"Iraq experts in the intelligence community believe that the proposed constitution, which creates autonomous regions for the Kurds and Shi'ites in the oil-rich north and south, could heighten the chances of an outright civil war. "A lot of us who have followed this thing have come to the conclusion that the Sunnis are the wolves--the real warriors--and the religious Shi'ites are the sheep," says an intelligence officer. "The Sunnis have the power to maintain this violence indefinitely."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106307,00.html

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" Under fire: British soldiers attacked in Basra Army used tanks and helicopters to storm jail and free captured troops, say Iraqis British troops were struggling to maintain control in Basra last night after the city exploded into bloody violence following the alleged killing of an Iraqi policeman by a British soldier. Two British servicemen, dressed in civilian clothes, were held at Basra's main police station after the incident. Outside, rioting began as the city threatened to descend into anarchy. Last night, British forces used up to 10 tanks - supported by helicopters - to smash through the walls of the jail and free the two British servicemen. John Reid, the Defence Secretary, later confirmed they were back with UK forces."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article313847.ece

Chaos. Fucking Chaos.

9/19/2005 9:50:58 PM

i thought this thread was supposed to be about "good news" from Iraq, as posited by you, pryderi...

9/19/2005 9:59:08 PM

My 1st cousin is over there and hasn't got his ass blown off yet. That is very good news to me.

Most everything else from over there, notsomuch.

9/19/2005 10:11:52 PM

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"i thought this thread was supposed to be about "good news" from Iraq, as posited by you, pryderi..."

welllllll
in his defense
nothing had been posted in over 2 weeks
perhaps this thread was designed as a self-fulfilling prophecy

9/19/2005 10:41:48 PM

Tired of just accidental friendly fire over and over? Intoducing... FRIENDLY STORMS!!1 New idea!!1 Allies fighting each other! Will the British destroy ALL prisons controlled by the freedom marching Iraqis? Or will Halliburton rebuild them ON THE FLY? DON'T MISS IT!!1 All that and MORE... right after THESE MESSAGES!!1

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/19/iraq.main/index.html

9/19/2005 10:50:58 PM

That has got to be the lamest joke on the internet today.

9/19/2005 10:56:35 PM

well, give it some time and soon they'll have Geico in the 51st state.

9/19/2005 11:05:58 PM

9/20/2005 12:22:19 AM

with an islamic theocracy in place, salisburyboy wont have to worry about a zionist conspiracy taking hold in the 51st state

9/20/2005 12:28:39 AM

9/20/2005 12:33:45 AM

Here's some not so good news. Despite what the admin is saying about the insurgency, the casualty rates remain the same:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/220/1228/320/slide1.jpg

9/20/2005 11:50:01 PM

What? No GEICO?

9/21/2005 12:21:53 AM

http://goodnewsfromthefront.com/
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/

9/21/2005 12:25:33 PM

9/21/2005 3:10:12 PM

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"It just so happens that my duties keep me where I belong. In the rear with the gear."

9/21/2005 7:01:54 PM