[Smogger]

Maiybe it's just the negative slanted news reporting getting to me.

It's the relentlessly negative news media. Geraldo was on Hannity and Colmes last night saying that things were 100% better over there then is being reported.

The steady drumbeat of negative news from over there is designed to bring down Bush's approval ratings before the next election. IMHO.

Where are the stories of the local elections being held around the country? Where are the stories of the millions of Iraqis that are grateful we are there and want us to stay? What about the 1000's of missions a day that are completed successfully?

Where do you hear/read it objectively reported that, frankly, we have lost more troops to accidents over there then the combat?

[Pikamax]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030829_718.html

"...Ahmad Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and a Governing Council member, blamed Saddam, his remnants and his allies from across the border.

"We know they are active in trying to undermine the Governing Council and allies of the U.S.," he said in a telephone interview.

Chalabi denied an earlier report on Al-Jazeera alleging that he had said U.S. forces were to blame for the bombing because they had failed in their responsibility to keep the area secure.

No coalition troops were in the area of the mosque out of respect for the holy site, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Jim Cassella said in Washington"

[Moose4]

Yeah, I guess you're right. It's just really hard to realize that we've expended one hell of a lot of time and money, and the lives of several hundred of our best and brightest (and note that by "our", I mean us, the UK, and all members of the "coalition of the willing"), to knock Saddam out of power. Granted, we ostensibly did it mainly for our own security, but we also brought 20+ million people out from under the heel of one of the world's worst tyrants.

If you watch the media, our thanks are to be accused of everything that goes wrong whether it's our fault or not. If you believe ABCCBSNBCNPRCNNBBC, we're too incompetent to fix electricity and water, most Iraqis hate us and want us gone, the UN is alternately saying "we told you so" and "no, we won't bail your cowboy President out," and Iraq is now going to replace Afghanistan as a home for Islamist nutters.

It's frustrating. Just once, I'd love to see the world actually freaking THANK us for doing all the dirty work. But that'll never happen, so I guess we have to stay confident in the fact that we're doing the right things.

}:-)4

[Joe Hadenuf]

Where are the stories of the local elections being held around the country? Where are the stories of the millions of Iraqis that are grateful we are there and want us to stay? What about the 1000's of missions a day that are completed successfully?

If everything is going so peachy, why is there a steady drumbeat for more troops into Iraq. Even some in the administration have voiced concerns, including some top ranking military commanders.

[Coop]

And it's working!! His most recent ratings plummeted from 59% down to 59%!

[ClancyJ]

We need Fox to get some reporters over there reporting the "fair and balanced".

Wonder why they don't? Money?

[slimer]

Where are the stories of the local elections being held around the country? Where are the stories of the millions of Iraqis that are grateful we are there and want us to stay? What about the 1000's of missions a day that are completed successfully?

Those things aren't news worthy like Scott Peterson and Koby Bryant and what Arnold did 25 years ago. The media is controlled by socialist elites who are working hard to destroy this nation. Anything that is beneficial is not reported because it does not stir up the masses.

[TexKat]

It's the relentlessly negative news media. Geraldo was on Hannity and Colmes last night saying that things were 100% better over there then is being reported.

Geraldo was not in the overall country of Iraq after his short cut honeymoon, so he can only speak for the areas that he was in. And besides I think that he was trying to CHA (cover his arse) on Hannity and Colmes. I watched his show this past Saturday and Sunday when he was in Iraq and he still rubs me the wrong way. I still think he does things that jeopardize our troops. On his show this past Saturday he interviewed Scott Ritter via satellite while he was with some of the troops in Iraq, and Scott Ritter was blabbing on about how GWB lied about the reasons for going to war and how illegitimate the war was. I'm sure this was something the troops wanted to hear sitting over there in 100 + degrees weather. Geraldo sucks as norm. All he cares about is himself.