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Originally posted by bilmore
I know several people working in the country right now on infrastructure, and everything they tell me points to huge improvements everywhere, structurally and societal, and they talk with disbelief (and a lot of anger) about the level of vitriol and misinformation that seems to pervade the MSM reporting of Iraq right now. I get a lot of my optimism about Iraq from them, and I think I'll believe them more than ten coastie reporters who have already expressed hatred for all things Bush.
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Not to out your friends, but are they in Baghdad? Basra? Kirkuk?
Here's the thing -- I'm glad to hear that there are places where improvements are occurring, but I don't understand the complete disconnect between that view and MSM reporting.
In trying to square that circle, I am more reluctant than you appear to be to share your view that the mainstream media is uniformly populated with Bush-haters who choose not to point to huge improvements everywhere, structurally and societal, and instead write about varying levels of chaos in Baghdad.
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