Commander: US could lose in Iraq due to negative media coverage

[bigtree]

lord knows, our regime did what we could to cover-up the bloody truth . . .

38 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060630/pl_afp/usiraqmilitary

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US combat commander suggested the United States could lose the war in
Iraq if public support for it at home is sapped by negative media coverage.

"Our soldiers may be in the crosshairs every day, but it is the American voter who is a real target, and it is the media that carries the message back each day across the airwaves," (Colonel Jeffrey Snow, a brigade commander in Baghdad said).


Snow tells the reporter that his unit had made progress in training Iraqi troops to replace it.

Then he goes on to say insurgent attacks have gone up in his western Baghdad area of operations since the start of a city-wide security crackdown ordered by the new Iraqi government earlier this month.


"The way I would answer that is that attacks here recently are up in our area. However, the overall effectiveness are down," he said.

"So you may perceive that as double-speak. I don't have the precise numbers in front of me," he added.


good thing he cleared that up . . . victory should be right around the corner

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Where's that soldier that went to al-Jazeera? n/t

[smoogatz]

2. There'd be no problem with political support for the war if:

1.The American public hadn't found out the whole thing was based on lies--in spite of the corporate media.
2.Bushco's conduct of the war hadn't been such a complete clusterfuck from the get-go.
3.There was any apparent plan to get the fuck out.
4.We appeared to be making measurable progress toward a specific goal. How many brigades of Iraqi soldiers must we train before we can leave? How many are ready to go? Why won't they tell us?

[bigtree]

3. still wouldn't make invasion and occupation right

overthrowing a sovereign govt. by force, installing a puppet 'authority, and overseeing the 'elections' of a new regime as we increased the numbers of the occupying troops . . .

What's the goal again?

[smoogatz]

5. Of course not. But it would be popular.

Or relatively so.

[Solly Mack]

4. Don't blame others for the government's foreign policy fuck-up

This FUBAR belongs to your CinC, Col Snow. It's his "war"...he wanted it...he got it.... he can take responsibility for it.