Bill Hobbs (at his spiffy new site) calls attention to a briefing by Army Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack, Jr., who says that attacks on coalition troops are down 60% since Saddam's capture. Mr. Hobbs wants to know why this hasn't been widely reported in the mainstream press, but I assume he's asking rhetorically.
The Iraqi Governing Council could petition the US for statehood, and if the media covered it they'd spend all their inches speculating on Halliburton's involvement. Besides, there's fighter jets not escorting passenger planes to report on, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead. Dennis Kucinich brings a pie chart to a radio debate, and the late Princess Di's gay husband wanted her dead.
Iraq is so 2003, Mr. Hobbs -- get with the program! You may as well wish for Afghanistan's new constitution to get air-time.
Slipped right in between the attack on French contractors (??) and the death of an Iraqi policeman, the Ass. Press has Swannack's quote on the reduction of attacks. Also, note the lovely scare quotes around the word terrorist.
That's the good news; at least one outlet is carrying the quote. The down side is that no one else I've found even discusses the subject of the quote.
I could almost laugh at the difference between what I hear in the media compared to what I hear from my shipmates who are in, or have just returned, from Iraq.
Yeah, it's all so bewildering to me! It's almost as if the press wants the fighting to continue so they've got something to write about!