Rob Nordland just now reporting live from Iraq on MSNBC...

[zanana]

Putting some positive spin on the Iraq situation, said that much progress is being made, and that people are safer in the past couple of weeks than they were before. Asked if the people "on the street" were complaining about anything, he replied, "Iraqis are good complainers, and in two weeks they will be complaining about something else." Way to go, MSNBC. Alfred Hitchcock couldn't have dreamed this up! Remember "Gaslight"?

[Brucey]

1. yes, let's ignore

the death, destruction, bad will, rationalizations, and lying. Let's concentrate on the good things, like Iraqis will have something else to complain about in a couple of weeks.

[revcarol]

2. Bingo.

You win the kewpie doll.

[realFedUp]

3. Lynne Cheney and her History Rewrite Committee

are busily sending networks footage of schools
being repainted...

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Bremer & Company are completely out of their depth

Scott Taylor is a Canadian army veteran who now runs a magazine on Canadian military affairs and does some freelance reporting. He was recently in Iraq and was recently interviewed for www.antiwar.com

CD: What can we expect from the current administration of "Ambassador Bremer"?


ST: Bremer & Company are completely out of their depth in Iraq. They continue to put a positive spin on everything, but this has gone way beyond a public relations exercise.

Bremer actually told Americans that in his experience, he has not witnessed any anti-US sentiment among the local population. This may be true only because Bremer drives around with an armored convoy whose gunners would grease anybody on the street who so much as looked suspicious.

I went out filming on my own one day and quickly became the target of young Iraqis hurling stones at me. Bremer is either a liar or a moron. As for his willingness to "stick it out" in Baghdad, this will not be a decision made in Baghdad. The Americans will pull out when Washington can no longer handle the domestic public backlash.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso87.html

In addition to the above interview, Taylor also wrote an article on his recent experience in Iraq for the Canadia Sun newspaper chain.

BAGHDAD -- A little Iraqi girl -- no more than eight years old -- squatted beside the road with tears of humiliation streaming down her cheeks.

Twenty feet away, three American soldiers had their rifles aimed at her as she was forced to relieve herself in full view of a long line of parked cars. From inside their vehicles, the Iraqi onlookers screamed their rage at the U.S. troops.

Whenever one of the Iraqis ventured to step out of his vehicle, an American officer bellowed, "Get back in the car, a--hole!" and the .50-calibre machinegun mounted on the U.S. Hummer would swing menacingly toward the protester.

The terrified little girl was weeping uncontrollably by the time she dropped her skirt and ran back to her mother.


http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2003/09/28/211300.html