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2008-07-19 Iraq

Baghdad family's woes far from Obama spotlight

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Posted by Steve White 2008-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Nice find, Steve. Did someone have to hold a gun on the AP guy to get him to write it? I'd have thought you'd have actually had to shoot him to get a story like that. You'd certainly have to put several bullets into a NYT reporter to obtain anything close to this pro-American copy.

Posted by Ho Chi Whimp8387 2008-07-19 01:31|| 2008-07-19 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 There are some honest reporters, even at the New York Times. See here and here.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-19 13:00|| 2008-07-19 13:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Partially agree with you, TW. Whenever I read a NYT story, I always use the presence of a John Burns byline to assess whether or not it's a truthful, unbiased representation of what's going on. No John Burns = almost certain bullshit.

Damien Cave, on the other hand, has always struck me as the more typical Timesman who's preaching to his choir of fashionably-progressive, Chardonnay-sippng Manhattanites.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-07-19 14:19|| 2008-07-19 14:19|| Front Page Top

#4 If you ask Malaki, who runs the country, he agrees that 16 months (which Obama proposes) is what they want.

If you ask some poor Iraqi, they'll ask for protection and hand outs forever.

I say we put the troops on the border with Iran.

Posted by Slairong Grundy8823 2008-07-19 18:41|| 2008-07-19 18:41|| Front Page Top

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