[Ol' Dan Tucker]

"They used a picture that was wrong. There's nothing sinister about it," he said.

Well, then. maybe they'll post instead the pics they took that really show the 'calm and stable' Baghdad.

[NormsRevenge]

Those would be pics from the outlying areas of Baghdad, I suspect, and not the Green Zone that is target numero uno or was for a long time.

[calcowgirl]

Well, then. maybe they'll post instead the pics they took that really show the 'calm and stable' Baghdad.

They did, immediately when they were made aware of it. The page now reflects:

Downtown Baghdad
We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake. We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad. We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.