Next on CNN Presents: "Progress Report on Iraq"....

[leftchick]

Hosted by Aaron brown on CNNI. It should be "Lack of Progress Report on Iraq" but I will watch. I think they are in full propaganda mode today so my expectations are not high.

[stray cat]

1. I saw it the other day and it was handled pretty evenly.

It was really nice to hear from Iraqis instead of listening to political spinners.

[leftchick]

3. Trying to define the insurgency now

and the reason it has gotten out of control.

[ixion]

2. Aaron Brown is not a journalist, IMO...

he's an idiot. And CNN drifts further every day from being a news organization. :-(

[goclark]

4. Saw cnn report today that started out as a spin

They were presenting an Iraqi Wedding party, everyone looked so full of joy.

When the REAL part got started, you heard the father of the bride saying,"I want my children to be happy. Life here is so uncertain etc."
By the time he finished, you could tell, all ain't well in Iraq.
Oh, they also had children swimming and happy in a sort of country club pool.


Who the hell wouldn't want to enjoy any piece of life when the next minute all of your family will be gone.

[stray cat]

5. That was actually their point.

Iraqis are trying to enjoy the moments they can but they are scared and angry but still trying to be optimistic because it is their future that is at stake.

[leftchick]

6. yep.. "people try to find pleasure where they can"

Frustration is the biggest part of their lives with the lack of all of the basic services. Many people said how scared they are but try desperatly to enjoy brief moments without fear.

[leftchick]

7. Not one Iraqi interviewed said things in Iraq are good

or getting better. Not one....Take That Faux!

[stray cat]

8. If we would have done anything to help the Iraqi people

Instead of just protecting the oil wells it could have turned out differently. We seem to have done very little to restore economic stability and basic needs that were destroyed by the invasion. I'm afraid that spoke more loudly than any of our words.

[MSgt213]

9. Why don't we have the big headlines when Iragis are being killed?

The terrorist over there are doing more damage to the Iraqi citizens then they have ever done to us. Yet when over 100 Iraqi citizens are killed in a 24 hour period we don't have show after show commenting on the acts. We don't call for new laws to identify people buying cars (because of the latest car bomb in Iraq.) But the biggest and scariest thing is we don't think the Iraqi people know the rest of the world really doesn't give a shit when a bunch them are killed.

One missing white person in America by their own design or by criminals is worth more news coverage then a 100 dead Iraqis. 50 killed in London or Spain is worth more worldwide news coverage then 1000s killed in Iraq. Do we think the Iraqis are so stupid not to know that the only reason why we are trying very hard to push them out front is not so they can kick start their own government, but so they can suffer more from the casualties of terror of our making, so our own soliders don't have to.

I think a lot of Iraqis knew Live 8 concerts were taking place for Africa (not that Africa doesn't deserve the attention) but not one concert or major effort to stop the killing of their kids.)

It's not that I think people don't care or have made efforts to bring attention to the plight of Iraqis. But I do think it's a lot easier and safer for the world to pretend to care about a place like Africa then it is to have the balls to say we need to stop the killing in Iraq that was caused by the superpower America.