Two Stories on the Today Show

[erpowers]

There are two stories that aired on the Today Show that I would like to talk about. First, maybe I should be happy with Brian Williams claims that the attacks this morning in Iraq actually show progress in Iraq, but I am having a hard time believing that. In reporting that nine soldiers had been killed in two different attacks outside of Baghdad Williams pointed out that even though there were two attacks outside of Baghdad their had not been any roadside bombs, ied explosions, or car bombs in Baghdad and that was a good thing. I tend to think that if Bush and his supporters were claiming that things were getting better in Iraq in that the attacks were mainly happening in Baghdad and the Anbar Province it is a bad sign when troops are being attacked outside of Baghdad. It seems that the attacks show that the violence could be spreading or that insurgents are just leaving Baghdad and attacking other regions of the country, which is what they have been doing since the beginning of the war.

The second story is about the story that the Today Show did about Rudy Giuliani. I am wondering how a story that was supposed to be about Rudy Giuliani and his problems with his children turned into a story about how all the candidates have family problems. The story started out talking about how Rudy is estranged from his kids, but then morphed into talking about how Hillary Clinton has problems with Bill Clinton and how Bill Clinton had problems with his brother who spent time in prison for Cocaine use or possession. It also talked about how Ronald Reagan had issues with his daugther who posed for playboy. I just did not see how everybody else's story had very much to do with Giuliani being estranged from in kids. Neither Bill or Hillary have ever been said to be estranged from Chelsea and Bill Clinton had no control over what his brother choose to do. Even with Reagan he was not estranged from his daugther. In my opinion the story should have focused on Giuliani and his kids. Even the show "Inside Edition" did a better job reporting about Giuliani's relationship with his kids.

[jarnocan]

1. I thought that was such BU**SH** -less violence in Iraq!

Deadly day for U.S. troops • Massive suicide car bomb kills 28
In the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Iraq in nearly a month, at least nine soldiers were killed Monday in two attacks north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said today. The deaths brought to 3,177 the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war. Scattered attacks today killed at least 25 Iraqis, authorities said. from cnn.com How could he say that????
this guy is likely a lot more credible- the book store owner, how sad.

[underpants]

2. NBC News last night they always mentioned that the insurgents were laying in wait

Whether it was Williams or Engel they mentioned (usually at the very end) that the US soldiers but more specifically the Iraqis said that they knew that the insurgents were biding their time and watching the US's actions. They have done this from the beginning.

Hopefully things will "quiet down" but I doubt it. They are probably waiting for the outposts to be isolated or something like that (sad to say). We'll see-hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

[Buzz Clik]

3. No bombings? Has Williams been tuned in to Fox?

Suicide Bombing Kills 20 in Baghdad Book Market

BAGHDAD, March 5 — The book market along Mutanabi Street was a throwback to the Baghdad of old, the days of students browsing for texts, turbaned clerics hunting down religious tomes and cafe intellectuals debating politics over backgammon.

Somehow it survived the war, until Monday, when a powerful suicide car bomb hit the market, slicing through the heart of the capital’s intellectual scene. It killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 65.

In the hours after the noontime explosion, books and stationery, some tied in charred bundles, littered the block. Plumes of black smoke billowed above ornate buildings dating to the Ottoman Empire. The storied Shahbandar cafe, where elderly writers puffed away the afternoon on water pipes, lay in ruins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/world/middleeast/05cnd-iraq.html?em&ex=1173330000&en=53dcb580efe49ffc&ei=5087%0A

Nice call, Brian.

[peacetalksforall]

4. There is no reason to trust GE and GE/Microsoft. The truth hurts.

Those corporations are always hurting humanity.

It's another dirty, rotten twist of their reality game that they played on us.

Just so we would be equally angry if it were corporations covering up, diverting, omitting, and masking a left wing agenda.