[The British] are abandoning their former headquarters at Basra Palace, where a recent official visitor from London described them as "surrounded like cowboys and Indians" by militia fighters.A senior US official in Baghdad is also quoted as saying "it's hard now to paint Basra as a success story." This seems like an awfully different narrative to the one from the BBC and other UK news outlets. Is there some sort of media black out going on to protect us all from bad news?
Hat Tip: Guido
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I don't think Iraq could ever have been 'won'. It is a false country which could only ever be held together by dictatorship. I fear all we are doing is delaying the inevitable break up.
Perhaps by putting a British 'failure' in this way, it won't seem so bad when the US has to fully admit the same themselves.
No media black out, more like a shocking example of them being caught missing during the action!
Their news agenda has moved on and therefore THEIR interest has waned. At the moment we are now losing a soldier weekly if not daily and yet that shockingly sharp increase in deaths goes unnoticed as they shift such announcements further and further down the list of news stories.
They simple read out Ministry of Defence statements without question or query, I bet their press office cannot believe how easy their job has become.
In rant mode because this is the British media at its weakest and most shameful when it comes to reporting the real events. Its the poor soldiers I feel sorry for, marginalised and badly treated by the government while the media goes on the rampage because Cameron bu**ered off to keep a long planned diary engagement to commemorate the genocide in Darfur!
Pretty shameful, shoddy and downright hypocritical journalism which ever way you look at it.
yes i would say that there is a media blackout, when its clear that the American surge is actually working and they are winning the war.
meanwhile , us Brits are losing.
wouldnt look good for Brown , would it?
i wouldnt be surprised if Petreaus takes the surge south after September - otherwise he runs the risk of his supply lines being cut off by the iranians.
Astonishing. Operation 'Towering Intellect' , the news Brown out that allows no negative stories that might tarnish the narrative of Gord's ascension.
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