Couric: 'Real Progress' In Iraq

[Botany]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_247203227.html

(CBS) BAGHDAD, Iraq One week before Gen. David Petraeus is expected to give his report on U.S.
progress in Iraq, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she has already seen dramatic
improvements in the country.

"We hear so much about things going bad, but real progress has been made there in terms of security
and stability," Couric said Tuesday. "I mean, obviously, infrastructure problems abound, but Sunnis
and U.S. forces are working together. They banded together because they had a common enemy: al Qaeda."

Couric traveled to the city of Fallujah in Anbar province, which U.S. forces entered in April 2003 and
again in November 2004. That is the same city where, in house-to-house fighting, American forces
uncovered nearly two-dozen torture chambers.



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I suppose the raise in the # of dead Iraqis, Cholera in the water, and the fact that the President
couldn't go to Baghdad are 'Real Progress' too.

Fucking propaganda ..... Katie goes to Iraq and then bush goes too on a surprise visit and hooks up
w/ Ms. Perky War Couric is juat a randome chance?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/03/eveningnews/main3229425.shtml

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Walter must be dying to hear her "crap."

Following Cronkite's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, President
Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said, "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America." His statements
at the time crystallized growing public opposition to the war, and helped lead to Lyndon Johnson's decision to
drop out of the 1968 presidential race.

[valerief]

1. I don't know how she can talk with so many Rethugs' "parts" in her mouth. nt

[AlCzervik]

2. improved from the other times she never went there?

[Botany]

3. Katie is not bothered by facts

Troop buildup fails to reconcile Iraq

The U.S. military buildup that was supposed to calm Baghdad and other trouble spots has failed to usher
in national reconciliation, as the capital's neighborhoods rupture even further along sectarian lines, violence
shifts elsewhere and Iraq's government remains mired in political infighting. In the coming days, U.S. military
and government leaders will offer Congress their assessment of the 6-month-old plan's results. But a review
of statistics on death and displacement, political developments and the impressions of Iraqis who are living
under the heightened military presence reaches a dispiriting conclusion. Despite the plan, which has brought
an additional 28,500 U.S. troops to Iraq since February, none of the major legislation that Washington had
expected the Iraqi parliament to pass into law has been approved. The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes
has increased, not decreased, according to the United Nations' International Organization for Migration and
Iraq's Ministry for Displacement and Migration.

http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/index.html

[Kagemusha]

4. I've heard Fallujah's had a vehicle curfew since MAY.

If they did that for all Iraq, the violence would go down a lot too. And people would live worse than during the middle ages after the Mongol invasion.

[Botany]

5. and in Nov of 2004 after bush stole another election

people were burned alive with white phosphorus ......

Let Katie go out w/ out a squad of marines for a meet & greet w/ the locals.