Is the "Surge" Working or is it a News Blackout?

[goclark]

If I didn't know better "sarcasm" it seems like all is well with the War.

Can't remember when I've heard a "MSM" report on the War.

[Flabbergasted]

1. hmmmm?

I've been wondering myself. Its been the worst year so far. Although it would be great if conditions improved and we could withdraw our troops, it's more likely a calm before the storm once again.

[goclark]

6. CNN just had a 2 sentence statement from a "reporter"

She said the number of soldiers killed is lower.

Gave total number of soldiers that have died since the beginning of the War.


END of her story ~ I vote news black out.

And about 15 minutes later they had this darling African American little girl that was waiting for her daddy to come home from Iraq.

He walks in to her classroom to surprise her ~ it was a beautiful scene.

Beautiful but what about the others that are still there?

I vote news Blackout.

Where is Michael Ware?

[anniebelle]

2. Where are the reports from Michael Ware and Lara Logan?

I think it's quite telling that we hear NOTHING from people on the ground in Iraq. I used to hear something from these two every week, but silence since the 'surge'. Guess our fuhrer is taking lessons of Musharaff -- shut up the press and the judges, sounds like our punk kid's plan.

[unhappycamper]

3. The occupation is not going all that well.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/

[leftchick]

4. I vote news blackout

http://icasualties.org/oif/

News
Current Time in Baghdad: 2:14:49 PM
11/06/07 Reuters: Thirty bodies found in mass graves near Baghdad
Iraqi soldiers uncovered two mass graves containing at least 30 bodies of men and women in a former al Qaeda stronghold northwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi and U.S. military said on Tuesday.
11/06/07 AP: 22 bodies found in mass grave outside of Baghdad, U.S. says
Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave in the Lake Tharthar area northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The bodies were found Saturday during a joint operation with U.S. forces, the military said in a statement.
11/06/07 NYTimes: Iraqi Police Academy Remains Largely Unusable
More than a year after the Parsons Corporation, the American contracting giant, promised Congress that it would fix the disastrous plumbing and shoddy construction in barracks the company built at the Baghdad police academy...
11/06/07 Xinhua: Gunmen kill provincial council member in N Iraq
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the provincial council of Nineveh in the provincial capital of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said. "Aref Yousif Qunber, the Nineveh council member and chairman of the council's culture..."
11/05/07 Reuters: Six bodies found in Mosul, 3 found in Baghdad
Six people, including a woman, were found shot dead in northeastern Mosul on Monday, police said. Some bore signs of torture. Also, a decapitated body was found in the southwest of the city...Three bodies were found across Baghdad on Monday, police said.
11/05/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 2 pedestrians, wound 7 in southern Baghdad
A roadside bomb targeting a joint Iraqi army and police patrol killed two pedestrians and wounded seven others in the Zaafaraniya district of southern Baghdad, police said
11/05/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill senior Baghdad civil servant
Gunmen shot dead a senior Baghdad civil servant in the Ghadeer neighbourhood of

[Breeze54]

5. Seems like a major MSM blackout, to me.

I was thinking the same thing yesterday morning, while watching the morning news shows and today...

[truebrit71]

7. News blackout precisely because it is NOT working....

...it id despicable that the MSM presstitutes are allowing this sort of censorship...

[goclark]

8. They have time to talk @ Anna Nicole

but not one word from Michael Ware in how long?