Things are so swell in Iraq our media needs to be ferried around in US military helicopters

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How about some ground shots to show us who great the surges is working? Interviews of man in the street kind of stuff.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/iraqis-fire-sur.html

For the first time since fierce fighting began in March, The New York Times says someone fired a surface-to-air missile at a U.S. military helicopter on Saturday as it flew over the Shiite slum in Baghdad known as Sadr City.

"The missile missed the aircraft," the paper says. "But the attack was sufficiently worrisome that the American military changed the route of an aerial tour of Baghdad it had arranged for a group of reporters, television cameramen and photographers on Monday. Two helicopters were to fly over or near Sadr City, but an official said the route had been changed because of the missile threat."