Iraq is a bloody MESS, and the story is being rated down?!!

[Sparkly]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20040811/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Avg Rating: 3.09, 490 votes

Is this the Babs Bush "Beautiful Mind" contingent?!

We are embroiled in what's shaping up to be a lovely "civil" war between Al Sadr's Shiite militants and the government we supposedly handed "control" over to. Every other paragraph in this story could be a headline in and of itself. Since we gave him Fallujah, now there's a mess in Najaf; the vp tells the US to stay out of it, but the "government" (who?) says to stay in; somebody made a deal to stave off an attack on the oil fields (who?) and every deal grants a little more power.

It's a total mess, we are not "winning," civilians are dying and suffering injury by the hundreds, yet we're hearing all about Laci Peterson on TV and somebody's rating this story down... :mad:

[lil-petunia]

1. who the heck made Peterson a national story?

that is pathetic.

good point, Sparkly

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. "When we see something bad, we blow it up"

That's all fine and dandy if you ID the right 'bad'. :eyes:

Meanwhile, this story on Dafur is No.1 (which isn't such a bad thing)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=1&u=/nm/sudan_dc

[BJ]

3. Hey! We got real problems in this country!

The Scot Peterson trial! The Kobe Bryant trial! Gay marriage fer krist's sake! Think, people, think!!
How'd you like my dittohead imitation?

[Sparkly]

4. And the thing is, since they're not paying attention NOW,

they'll have somebody like Rush Limbaugh provide a revised history of it later. That's the pattern. Then they'll send out mass emails getting all the facts wrong and blaming it on President Kerry, and we'll be searching back to these news articles to correct them. Happens every time!

[amber dog democrat]

5. I'll bet news from the Eastern Front was not appreciated either

We may be pressing reporters not to report truthfully what is happening in Iraq.
but if we focus on the 3 Bs, ( babies, birthdays and boweling ) life will go on as normal.

[catmandu57]

6. When the shit really hits the fan

then people are going to look around so fucking suprised, it's getting worse by the hour, but people are so easily decieved.