[r9etb]

What I'm seeing is the media getting hyperbolic about it, as usual.

Thanks, Allegra, for the in-theatre view. Here's the million dollar question: how are the mediots getting their information? Do they ever leave the Green Zone?

[Old Sarge]

I can answer that... they don't.

The only reporters to dare set foot in Ramadi from home-town newspapers, and not the MSM. The stories you hear about the cocktail circuit at the Palestine are all dead accurate.

[Allegra]

Here's the million dollar question: how are the mediots getting their information? Do they ever leave the Green Zone?

They got kicked out of the Green Zone last fall. The military got fed up with their distortions. They're at the Palestine Hotel across the Tigris from the Green Zone.

So they sit around there and collaborate on their lies.