Talabani: "The media is only focusing on the negative and exaggerating it"

[sabra]

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/breaking_news/15614059.htm

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Talabani projected a vastly different account of the security situation. He said it had improved since last year when many areas were in the control of terrorists.

Last year, he said by way of example, there were 10 to 14 car bombings a day in Baghdad and this year one to four.

Most of the fighting is centered in Baghdad, and since most media are in the capital they provide a slanted picture of Iraq's situation, Talabani said.

"The media is only focusing on the negative and exaggerating it," he said.

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Pulling out now would "encourage the militias and the enemies of a free and independent and unified Iraq," Lieberman quoted Talabani as saying.

However, Lieberman said, "he said, 'We look forward to the day when we can take over ourselves, and most of the American troops can go home.'"

[EarthNeedsHope]

1. Can all the propogandaniks just shut the hell up

Nobody buys what they are saying anymore except a small jingo crowd.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. I don't think the negatives in Iraq need to be exaggerated, it's bad

enough on it's own. And what positives are there to focus on, btw? And I don't count trumped up positives. Also what media would that be? :shrug:

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Talibani would be executed within 1 minute of leaving the "Green Zone"

that's how good the situation is in Iraq.

[gizmo1979]

4. I'm so sick of them putting lipstick on a pig

that I could just puke.You fucked up it's a mess ain't getting no better.So tell the truth so you can do what you have to do to fix it.The way it is now they lie and do nothing and our guys are getting killed because of a political strategy to keep their sorry asses in power.

[roamer65]

5. Howard Stern had a soldier just back from Iraq

on his show the other day. He's received a medical leave due to stress induced diabetes. The stress over there drove him diabetic. The soldier says it's horrible over there, a lost cause and we should just get out now. I trust this guys judgment more than that worm Talabani.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. My daughter in law's brother is over there, has been for a year now.

He says it's all messed up and morale in his unit is low.

[leftchick]

7. This from a guy who has not walked his fat ass out of the Green Zone

in three fucking years. I am so not impressed. Try this dose of reality, it will curl your toes...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10402824

Ethnic civil war rages through Iraq

1.00pm Monday September 25, 2006
By Patrick Cockburn


Civil war is raging through the Iraqi countryside.

Sunni insurgents have largely taken control of the province of Diyala, where local leaders believe the insurgents are close to establishing a 'Taleban republic'. Officials in the strategically important, mixed Sunni and Shia province with a Kurdish minority, have no doubt about what is happening.

Lt Col Ahmed Ahmed Nuri Hassan, a weary looking commander of the federal police, says: "Now there is an ethnic civil war and it is getting worse every day."

At the moment the Sunni seem to be winning it. As the violence has escalated in Iraq over the past three years it has become too dangerous for journalists to find out what is happening in the provinces outside the capital.

The UN said last week that 5106 civilians were killed in Baghdad in July and August and 1493 in the provinces outside it.

Insurgents have cut the roads out of the capital to the west and the north.