A day in Iraq: What's the GOOD NEWS??

[Sparkly]

Basically, Iraq's government is still in disarray over the choice of a new prime minister, and other top posts, and as a result Monday's scheduled meeting of parliament may not happen.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=Ak5JxpLVAWhxFFnz6HYZfius0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

The AP correspondent says: "The lack of political stability has fueled the chaos in the streets, where bombings, kidnappings and shootings occur daily."

The article goes on to note:

- A car bombing in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad that killed 13 people and wounded at least eight.

- The massacre of a Sunni family of 7 in Basra, along with two others killed in a drive-by shooting there.

- The killing of two kidnapped men who'd been working with British troops; a third man was still not found.

- The assassination of a Sunni politician's brother and his friend, killed by gunfire while driving in eastern Baghdad.

- Continued attacks on government employees: one kidnapped, two wounded in shootings, with one woman's driver killed. (This just a day after three other government employees were killed.)

- Four people shot dead in one southern district of Baghdad: A bystander shot and killed in a gunfight, a power plant employee shot down as he was leaving work, a soldier in civilian clothes shot near his home, and a body found shot in the head.

- Four more bodies, shot dead, found in northern and western Baghdad.

- In Mosul, a policeman was driving his sons to school when he and one of his sons was shot and killed, the other boy seriously wounded.

- In Basra, the body of a kidnapped barber was found.

- Also in Basra, two engineers were kidnapped. The night before, a translator working with British troops was kidnapped.

- Southwest of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier.

- In Mahmoudiya, an Iraqi police commando was killed in a roadside bombing.

- Late yesterday, north of Baghdad at an air base, two drivers and six policemen were killed as they accompanied a convoy carrying mobile health clinics.

- Also late yesterday, two Iraqi contractors who supply food to the army were stopped in their car and killed.

That's not a week or a month of news -- that's last night and today.

And this: "More American troops have died in the first two weeks of April — 36 — than in the entire month of March, when 31 died, according to an Associated Press count."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq;_ylt=Ak5JxpLVAWhxFFnz6HYZfius0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

So tell me... What's the "GOOD NEWS" in all this that should be reported??? :mad:

[beachmom]

1. You're preaching to the choir, Sparkly

I think Gen. Zinni said it best recently, when he said that U.S. soldiers are doing good things for certain towns or villages, but they are temporary in measure, not sustained and not institutionalized on a national level. That's what that whole "good news" thing is about. American soldiers are always saying that they're doing good works, and it doesn't get reported in the news. Fair enough. But these individual acts of kindness (say, building a school or giving presents to children) don't add up to ending the insurgency or the civil war. They don't lead to a general feeling of good will for the American occupation, and they never will.

Until there is a functioning unity government in Iraq, a relatively peaceful Baghdad, and an agreed upon transition timetable to get American troops out of Iraq, this whole good news talk is simply a farse to deflect criticism of the administration onto those old meanies -- the journalists risking their lives to cover the Iraq War and telling it like it is.

[wtmusic]

2. They're building a wave park in Baghdad nt

[northofdenali]

3. The Fairbanks area has lost another 3 soldiers -

in the last 4 days, plus many wounded -

Great news, Shrub. :mad:

[Doctor_J]

4. The good news for Smirk is that everyone's focussed on his

act of treason, so no one's reporting on his debacle in the ME. BTW, the warm season is coming to Baghdad. More bad news.

[npincus]

5. Doyou notice the MSM doesn't lead with Iraq stories anymore?

Why the hell do they cower and tremble to a President with a mid-thirties approval rating? Stupid f*ckers.

[libodem]

6. heartbreaking

the whole mess is just demoralizing. This whole country will need antidepressants. It hurts to care.