Larry Johnson: Five Days in April in Iraq

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Five Days in April in Iraq

by Larry C Johnson on April 5, 2006

Clearly smarting under charges that they are "failing" to tell the good news in Iraq, the major TV network and cable channels appear to have abandoned any effort to report what is going on in Iraq. Fearful of being accused of undermining the war effort, the TV side of journalism apparently decided to punt and do nothing. Fortunately, the print media and wires continue to tough it out. Working from the info collected on www.icasualties.org, I have assembled a snapshot of the first five days of April in Iraq. It is not a pretty picture. While it certainly could be worse, the facts on the ground make it very tough to argue that the U.S. is making progress in securing Iraq.

Here is a summary of the last five days (the specific news reports are posted at the end of this article). During the period of 31 March thru 4 April the following occurred:

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The problem is not what the news media is reporting. The real problem is that the White House continues to delude itself into believing that the problems in Iraq can be solved simply by managing the news. The events on the ground in Iraq, however, reflect centuries of deep seated sectarian and ethnic strife. If we cannot create effective security forces or provide such security ourselves, the Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds in Iraq will seek protection from their own militias. A functioning government requires, at a minimum, that the people be protected. If it cannot fulfill that task then the government has little chance of being accpeted as legitimate. Until that problem is solved Iraq will remain in the throes of a low-grade, but escalating, civil war.

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Much more at the link:

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/five_days_in_ap.html

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