Couric: 'Real Progress' In Iraq

[Botany]

Re-post

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.

[Tyler Durden]

1. Two words for Katie:

Blow me.

Shill.

[Botany]

2. Katie is not bothered by facts

What are the odds that she would get an interview w/ bush in Iraq?

Wow almost like CBS and the White House are working together.

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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

[HughBeaumont]

3. RAH RAH RAH! GO! FIGHT! DIE!

Stupid shit. Bewsh's own little leashed cheerleader strikes again.

[BuelahWitch]

4. I guess if it's going so well

she won't mind sending any of her kids or nieces or nephews to go fight, huh?

[Botany]

6. Just checked .... her oldest is 16

So next year she could be in Iraq if she wanted to.

[tom_paine]

5. The Selling of the Propaganda is amazing, astonishing...and effective

I think we have finally reached 1937 for the Imperial Subjects of Amerika, and May 1940 in terms of Imperial Bushie Foreign Policy.

[Jacobin]

7. She is reqlly quite predictable

[mwb970]

8. What a silly little twit.

We might as well have BritneyParisNicoleLindsay giving us their deep, profound opinions on the world scene.

Couric is in so far over her head you can't even see her any more.

[acmavm]

9. Someone needs to get Katie a dictionary. And a swift kick in

the ass.

[youthere]

10. Some people say Katie Couric is full of shit.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

11. call me a cynic, but, i think this was the purpose

of her trip.

[unhappycamper]

12. That's what I said last Saturday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1711418