[antimedia] antimedia: Things are not going well in Iraq....

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Posted by antimedia:
Things are not going well in Iraq....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1147317326.shtml


   ....for [1]the so-called mujihadeen, whose efforts seem for naught.
   Recently the US military captured some telling documents from the
   "insurgents".

     4. The policy followed by the brothers in Baghdad is a media
     oriented policy without a clear comprehensive plan to capture an
     area or an enemy center. Other word, the significance of the
     strategy of their work is to show in the media that the American
     and the government do not control the situation and there is
     resistance against them. This policy dragged us to the type of
     operations that are attracted to the media, and we go to the
     streets from time to time for more possible noisy operations which
     follow the same direction.
     This direction has large positive effects; however, being
     preoccupied with it alone delays more important operations such as
     taking control of some areas, preserving it and assuming power in
     Baghdad (for example, taking control of a university, a hospital,
     or a Sunni religious site).
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     At the same time, the Americans and the Government were able to
     absorb our painful blows, sustain them, compensate their losses
     with new replacements, and follow strategic plans which allowed
     them in the past few years to take control of Baghdad as well as
     other areas one after the other. That is why every year is worse
     than the previous year as far as the Mujahidinâs control and
     influence over Baghdad.

   You would think the American media would be highlighting this news.
   But they have [2]a different agenda.

     At least 17 civilians, including women and children, were killed
     late today by a suicide truck bombing in Tal Afar, a northwestern
     Iraqi city, according to President Jalal Talabani's Kurdish
     political party.
     At least 35 others, most of whom were women and children, were
     wounded after a white pickup truck carrying flour exploded about
     8:30 p.m. in the city's marketplace, the Patriotic Union of
     Kurdistan said on its Arabic-language Web site. The perpetrators
     have not been identified.
     The violence came in a city that President George W. Bush has cited
     as an example of progress in fighting rebels in Iraq.

   (This highlighting is mine.)
   The last sentence is deliberately placed to have the maximum effect.
   The point? Bush is lying about Iraq. He says things are getting
   better, but even while he's talking, look at the violence!! And gee,
   you don't suppose the violence might have been deliberately planned
   for that city at that time precisely because they knew the media would
   highlight it, huh?
   The media is so easily manipulated that it's laughable.
   When the violence dies down in Iraq, the media will pull out and
   ignore Iraq just as they have Afghanistan. For the media, good news is
   no news.

References

   1. http://www.centcom.mil/sites/uscentcom1/Shared%20Documents/Extremist%20Page/full_translation_done_may_3.aspx
   2. http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/004546.html