Patrick Cockburn on reporting the real news in Iraq:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article570217.ece
A frustrating aspect of writing about Iraq since the invasion is that
the worse the situation becomes, the easier it is for Tony Blair or
George Bush to pretend it is improving. That is because as Baghdad and
Iraq, aside from the three Kurdish provinces, become the stalking
ground for death squads and assassins, it is impossible to report the
collapse of security without being killed doing so.
What can anyone do to offer another view (beyond this, at least)?
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