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Better Late Than Never: New York Times Admits Iraq Progress
I bet this was incredibly painful for The New York Times to have to write:
The security improvements in most neighborhoods are real. Days now pass without a car bomb, after a high of 44 in the city in February. The number of bodies appearing on Baghdad’s streets has plummeted to about 5 a day, from as many as 35 eight months ago, and suicide bombings across Iraq fell to 16 in October, half the number of last summer and down sharply from a recent peak of 59 in March, the American military says.
As a result, for the first time in nearly two years, people are moving with freedom around much of this city. In more than 50 interviews across Baghdad, it became clear that while there were still no-go zones, more Iraqis now drive between Sunni and Shiite areas for work, shopping or school, a few even after dark. In the most stable neighborhoods of Baghdad, some secular women are also dressing as they wish. Wedding bands are playing in public again, and at a handful of once shuttered liquor stores customers now line up outside in a collective rebuke to religious vigilantes from the Shiite Mahdi Army.
It was looking like it was gonna be a near total media blackout on the good news in Iraq, but thankfully there appears to be at least a shred of honesty left at the NYT.
-Chris Jones
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Yeah, progress. Now that the different cities have all been ethnically cleansed the different fractions don’t have anyone left to kill. Once everyone is dead murder, crime, and poverty will of course be 0.00%. Anyhow, only 16 suicide bombings. Everything is honky dory I suppose. RETARDED.
Yeah, but there are no circumstances on which you would ever acknowledge progress.
You have such a severe case of Bush Derangement Syndrome, that you absolutely refuse to acknowledge that things are beginning to look up.
Don’t be such a “gloomy Gus” I’m sure you’ll get some more dead soldiers before long.
Don’t give up, there is still a chance we could lose this thing. Hang in there!