We all should be focused on helping the millions in the Bayou. But we have to keep half an eye on Iraq , and don't let Republicans get away with anything dealing with Iraq, medicine (Plan B) or anything else.
Great Odin's Raven!
Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., both told The [Wichita] Eagle editorial board in separate meetings in the past week that the media isn't reporting enough of the good news in Iraq. Tiahrt said there have been great successes, but that successes don't make the headlines. Brownback said that the media favor conflict over good news and that, on an objective basis, things are actually going well in Iraq.
Only the stark raving mad would tell a newspaper to print nicer stories on Iraq the same week as the deadliest attack on Iraqi civilians was
unleashed (see the many diaries on kos, of course):
Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday, crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About 800 died, mostly women and children, officials said.
And only the monumentally stupid would try to convince a newspaper that the war is going well in one of its deadliest months.
U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war rose in August to the highest monthly total since January, and American officials predict escalating insurgent violence ahead of a planned October constitutional referendum.
At least 84 U.S. troops were killed in August, according to a count of deaths announced by the military. Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, there have been 1,879 American military deaths in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, with another 14,265 troops wounded.