The Anchoress
UPDATE:::: If you have not been hearing good news from Iraq, that’s Bush’s fault…because…because he wants the Democrats to look bad…or…something. I don’t know.:::: END UPDATE
Ed Morrissey explains:
Michael Yon has grown frustrated with American and European coverage of the war in Iraq. He has experienced the vast gulf that has opened between the reality of his own observations throughout the Iraqi nation and the depictions of doom that the Western media create out of whole cloth — and he has reached the boiling point in his latest dispatch. Yon writes of a “dogma dome” which insists that Basra has descended into chaos when it hasn’t, and that Iraq has collapsed when it has actually started to coalesce into a real nation
Yon’s whole piece is here.
More from Ed:
Yon is doing something rather unusual — he is offering his reports for free to members of the National Newspaper Association. Rather than charge for his dispatches as most independents would of syndicators, Yon will allow them to use the reports for free. He is putting his money where his mouth is, in order to give newspapers no excuse to recycle old stories or print new falsehoods, as he puts it. He wants an end to the dogma dome and the truth about Iraq to get to the American people.
If you have been regularly reading Yon’s reports, you know that he is an independent journalist (and excellent photographer) who has at times been the only source for in-depth coverage of what is going on in Iraq, for better or worse. Iraq has made a dramatic turn-around and that fact is getting little attention from the press. The American public is basically unaware of it, and their unawareness is harmful to all of us and to our soldiers, who deserve recognition for what they’ve accomplished. I am sending a donation his way and hope some of you will, too.
Michael Barone says Iraq 2007 is not Iraq 2006 in a must-read piece, and AJ Strata has more on the changes in Iraq. And if you like charts, Bluto has a chart.
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