WHY DO BUSH AND MEDIA TELL AMERICANS THINGS ARE BETTER IN IRAQ WHEN ALL THIS IS HAPPENING?

The Bush administration and their puppet mouthpiece, FOX NEWS, have long contended things are better in Iraq, but what bothers this blogger is why are the rest of the media going along with this BS when it is obvious to anyone who can read and knows how to do research re conditions in Iraq that Iraq is still a hotbed of violence.

Another U.S. soldier was killed on Sunday in Baghdad and violence and car bombings are going on in virtually every province in Iraq.

The mainstream media in the United States has totally sold out to the Bush administration and the people that are suffering the most for the lack of Iraq war coverage are the 160,000 troops in Iraq and their families back in the United States.

I count 6 bomb or mortar attacks on government forces in Baghdad today, all of them quite effective, plus one fatal attack on U.S. forces, yet the media continues to discuss the "lull in violence" in Iraq. (See below.) One has to wonder what a resurgence in violence would look like. -- C.

The mainstream media in the United States is a total disgrace.

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE

Reported Security IncidentsUpdate:
SOURCE: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
NOTE: Click on BLUE for additional details of each death or incident of violence.

Rashad (near Kirkuk): Suicide truck bomb attack on a U.S. patrol base kills 1 U.S. soldier, injures 18.
BaghdadU.S. soldier killed by roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad. No further details at this time.

Mortar attack on Iraqi Defense Ministry compound inside the Green Zone kills 3, injures 7.Bomb planted near the entrance to a police recruiting center in al-Nosoor square, western Baghdad, kills 4 recruits and injures 23.Roadside bomb attacks on two separate police patrols injure 9 people.

First bomb in al-Jadidah, southeastern Baghdad, injures 2 police and 2 civilians. Second bomb in al-Waziriyah, central Baghdad, injures 2 police and 3 civilians.

Suicide car bomber attacks a police patrol in Nisoor square, killing 1 police officer and 1 civilian, and injuring 5 civilians. As far as I can tell this AP report does not correspond to any other incidents reported elsewhere. I'm not sure whether "Nisoor square" is the same as "Nosoor square," but in any case the events described are very different.

Bomb attack on the convoy of police Brig. Gen. Nazar Majeed kills 3 police and 1 civilian, injures 18 people including Gen. Majeed. Again, this does not appear to the correspond to the attack in Al-Jadidah reported by VoI.


U.S. says it has captured a "special groups" leader from Basra, in Baghdad. They claim he was sending "criminals" to Iran for training.Four bodies dead of gunshot wounds found in various places.

KutUnknown gunmen kill an Iraqi soldier. (Kut is the capital of Shiite Wassit province, in the south of Iraq.)AziziyaGunmen kill 5 shepherds and burn two of their vehicles. Not clear what this is all about -- could be sectarian violence, or a clan feud, or common criminality, e.g. an extortion racket. VoI says the attackers were riding on motorcycles, identifies the location as "al-Nahrawan area," northern Wassit.

MosulGunmen attack a police patrol, killing 3 police and injuring 2 police and 3 civilians.

IskandiriyaRoadside bomb kills 1 person, injures 2. The Reuters report does not characterize the target. BaqubaSahwa fighter killed in a drive-by shooting.

Basra British base at the airport attacked with 10 Katyusha rockets, no casualties.