The State of Iraq: An Update

NY Times ^ | June 16, 2006 | Nina Kamp, Michael O'Hanlon and Amy Unikewicz

[Oshkalaboomboom]

AFTER his surprise trip to Baghdad this week, President Bush struck a hopeful tone. "I do think we'll be able to measure progress," he declared at a news conference on Wednesday. "You can measure progress in capacity of Iraqi units ... in megawatts of electricity delivered ... in oil sold on the market .... There's ways to determine whether or not this government's plans are succeeding."

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The MSM will NEVER describe progress in Iraq as a glass half full as long as it will benefit Republicans

[Question Liberal Authority]

Any update on the state of The New York Times?

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

I can just see the headlines in a couple of years:

Iraq's economic boom hurts U.S economy. It's all President Bush's fault for helping to foster a free and prosperous society.

[madconserv]

"Violence on the whole is as bad as ever. Sectarian strife is worse than ever. The economy has slowly come back to prewar levels for the most part, but is now treading water. As a result, optimism has waned. According to an International Republican Institute poll conducted in late March, more than 75 percent of Iraqis consider the security environment to be poor and the economy poor or mediocre."

How can they possibly go back to something that old? The environment in Iraq changes daily. That report will be blown out of the water in the next few days to weeks. They can't see the light through the trees.

[Allegra]

The State of Iraq:

It's not a state. It's a republic.

Sorry....couldn't resist.

[Allegra]

Violence on the whole is as bad as ever. Sectarian strife is worse than ever. The economy has slowly come back to prewar levels for the most part, but is now treading water. As a result, optimism has waned. According to an International Republican Institute poll conducted in late March, more than 75 percent of Iraqis consider the security environment to be poor and the economy poor or mediocre.

This is a huge load of cr@p. It's not true at all. Wonder what their source is? The New York Times staff fiction writer?

And who is the International Republican Institute and just who was polled?

The media is evil.

[Allegra]

The environment in Iraq changes daily. That report will be blown out of the water in the next few days to weeks. They can't see the light through the trees.

Oh, trust me, the reporters here on the ground can see it.

They just don't want the people back home to see it. They're suppressing the truth...as they've been doing all along.

[madconserv]

How true! The only one's with open hearts ,eye's and minds are here on Freep and other Conservative sites. I heard on CBS radio news that Iraq southern area will soon be taken over completely by Iraqi troops and police so that the British and Japanese forces can move elsewere for further support elsewhere. Have you?

[American in Singapore]

Iraq has a long way to go...

No sh^t Sherlock... perhaps, the question should be: is it on the right track? Obviously, yes.

35 years of Saddam and Iraq being a terrorist haven (which is awesome - saves us more time having to run around the world and wipe them out), and the Slimes think there should be total ly successful.

Have the libs seen a map of the Middle East lately? Who is between Afghanistan & Iraq?

Complete Losers in Loserville. The libs couldn't security their way out of a wet paper bag.

[DustyMoment]

This is a huge load of cr@p. It's not true at all. Wonder what their source is?

Ummmmmm . . . . . . Sean Penn???

Just a guess, though.

[reformedliberal]

They seem to have incurred the wrath of the left:

The International Republican Institute, an organization that describes itself as being dedicated to “advancing democracy, freedom, self-government and the rule of law worldwide,” has in the last two decades earned the questionable distinction of being perhaps the least-known of a group of lethal Washington institutions devoted to the trade of nation-building, or more accurately termed, nation undermining. Despite its elaborate rhetoric and claims to nonpartisanship, the IRI in fact operates as the powerful and well-funded foreign policy arm of the ultra rightist wing of the U.S. Republican Party. It is far more ideological and operational than its Democratic Party counterpart, the National Democratic Institute, and is less concerned with democracy building than hunting down leftists and crushing their causes.

http://www.coha.org/NEW_PRESS_RELEASES/New_Press_Releases_2004/04.40_IRI_Democracy.htm

[SamAdams_Lite]

the IRI in fact operates as the powerful and well-funded foreign policy arm of the ultra rightist wing of the U.S. Republican Party.

What happened to the Neo-Con American Century Conspiracy?

[reformedliberal]

Be afwaid, be very afwaid: the neo-cons are everywhere!!