Anyone else hearing this BS on CNN right now?

[shadowknows69]

They have Barbara Starr on phone, no video at all mind you, claiming that she is taking a leisurely stroll through the streets of Ramadi with General Petraus. Commenting on how many people are walking around and how amazingly peaceful it is "considering it was an Al-Qaida stronghold not long ago". Where's the video of this peaceful market Barbara? Or are you really phoning this in from your suite in the green zone.

[hobbit709]

1. That's so that you can't see

The 200 heavily armed troops, the helicopter gunships and the helmets and flak vests like in the previous Baghdad market oujting.

[shadowknows69]

3. Claimed there wasn't even helicopters in the air

Hell we have blackhawks going over my house all the time. I'm booking my next vacation to Ramadi. Most peaceful city in the world.

[madokie]

2. turned 'em off one week ago today

so I'm missing it. I will be sending them an email here shortly letting them know there is life after cnn. With their hit piece on Michael Moore they lost this viewer for the foreseeable future. the only thing I miss is the ole crumudgen himself jack cafferty but not by much

[shadowknows69]

4. It's just background noise in my house

So I have something to yell at while I drink my coffee.

[madokie]

7. well I resembled that comment too but you won't believe what it does for one's outlook

for the day to not have to go there anymore, there = getting mad and throwing things
:-)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. BS is able to create all sorts of fantasies, without the vid. "Oh, look at the butterflies and

hummingbirds, sipping the nectar of the beautiful gardens along shimmering lakes, as Iraqis dance and sing along the water's edge.
Such peace and joy in the market, we see. God Bless the troops and General Petreus. Back to you in the studio..."

:puke: MKJ

[shadowknows69]

8. I guess it was Gen. Pace, my bad

Petraus apparently isn't stupid enough.

[OlderButWiser]

13. How do you trust someone

who's name sounds like Be-tray-us?

[pwb]

6. Now i know where i will go on vacation. Exploding Iraq.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Lets see them do that everyday for the next month.

:popcorn:

[shadowknows69]

11. But no video?

I mean as if CNN's credibility with people of IQs higher than 20 isn't stretched thin enough. This was simply pathetic. Suprising lack of background noise in that busy market too Barbara, should have had the production department throw in some generic crowd noise in the background. I have a sound effects library if you want to borrow it CNN.

[leftchick]

10. I guess she hasn't made it here yet :"Officials report massacre in Diyala"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070717/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD - Dozens of Shiite villagers in the north were massacred by Sunni extremists, two officials said Tuesday, while a car bomb exploded across the street from the Iranian Embassy in the heart of Baghdad and killed four civilians.

<snip>

Police Col. Ragheb Radhi al-Omairi said 29 members of a Shiite tribe were massacred overnight in Diyala province when dozens of suspected Sunni gunmen raided their village near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. The dead included four women, al-Omairi said.

Al-Omairi said he had not seen the bodies and it was unclear whether they had been retrieved.

An Iraqi army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not supposed to release the information, said the attack occurred in the village of Diwailiya and that at least 10 bodies were mutilated in the hour-long raid.

The village is in the same province as Baqouba, where fighting escalated Tuesday. U.S. and Iraqi troops regained control of western Baqouba last month, but al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgent elements remain active in the rest of the city. The al-Qaida front Islamic State of Iraq had declared Baqouba its capital.


.... And check out this caption from an AFP photo...

Smoke billows from the site of a car bomb that exploded close to the 'Green Zone' in Baghdad. Gunmen dressed in Iraqi military uniforms stormed a village in the restive Iraqi province of Diyala and murdered 29 people.(AFP/Olivier Laban-Mattei)

[Atman]

12. MSNBC says a new terra threat from Al Q has been discovered

Coming up soon. No Peter Pace walking the streets. Gosh, he must have given an exclusive to CNN. What a nice, cozy relationship they have there.

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[MetaTrope]

14. What it took to get a CNN phone-in report

March:

The 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (1-3ID)is currently engaged in street to street fighting in central Ramadi. The much anticipated attack follows months of hands off policy as troops were routinely sniped and attacked with orders not to retaliate.

After much planning U.S. forces along with a collection of hired local tribesmen from nearby Sofia (a suburb of Ramadi) and other groups are attacking and clearing the are house by house. The tribes have been formed into paramilitary units called "Emergency Response Units" and are linked with U.S. troops.

The 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1-9), 2nd Infantry Division has been given the dirty job of house to house combat in Ramadi's center. Many of the houses have been booby trapped in anticipation of the attack. The U.S. Military estimates that there are around 60 insurgents remaining in the area of 15,000 people. Initial estimates put the insurgent numbers at between 100 and 200.

The city of half a million is a Sunni stronghold and the objective is to establish a foothold in a rundown collection of abandoned and destroyed homes called the Mulaab district. Ultimately the U.S. and Iraqi forces hope to build and hold nine fortified police stations to control the city.

April:

Ramadi residents woke up to a new security requirements this morning, as the US military has reportedly begun issuing special identification cards to locals as a measure to keep non-residents away from the city.

"U.S. forces started this morning issuing identification cards to residents of Ramadi city after taking local residents’ finger prints and making cornea scans to isolate wanted persons and to prevent anyone from entering the city without an ID," a "security source in Anbar province" told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by phone.

Just a dry run for Bush's vision of America...

[snappyturtle]

15. Sure. Two days ago they were bragging about the progress in

Anbar an Diyala.....of course this morning the reality in Diyala this morning 80 dead and 180 injured. Honestly, I don't believe anything they say.

[sutz12]

16. ...and just think. In a couple of years, this could be a small town in Iran.

:evilgrin:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. Well, now that we have succeeded, let's get the hell out of there! n/t

[OneBlueSky]

18. Paging Ted Turner! . . . Paging Mr. Ted Turner!! . . .

please, please, please! . . . put together a group of investors to buy back CNN and turn it into the kind of real news organization that you envisioned when you founded it . . . you could re-define what "news" means in the 21st century -- and quite possibly help save the nation from whatever it is that BushCo is trying to turn us into . . .

[Throwing Stones]

19. CNN doesn't want us to be alarmed by the massive amounts of chocalates and flowers being thrown

[guitar man]

20. great

it's all quiet, peaceful and nice, let's bring the troops home, mission accomplished!!

(well, except for that one bomb or so a day, you know)

[EFerrari]

21. More guided imagery from Barbara Starr. She should go on

the DIY Channel.