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A new poll taken by a respectable polling organization in Iraq has found that the majority of Iraqis’ believe life is better now than under Saddam. In fact, since the troop surge in Baghdad many Iraqis’ feel that American and Iraqi security forces can control the militias and end the killing. Of course, it is not even possible to find this story in most of the American press(meanwhile it is being reported in the press all over Europe), and it took me almost 3 minutes to find it on FoxNews.com

Why is it that this story, a story about what actual Iraqis believe is happening in their own country, is not reported? I do not think everything is going well in Iraq, but I have said all along that while violence is occuring within the Sunni Triangle, the rest of the country is relitivly stable (Kurdistan is trying to attract money to build up its ski resorts and has rapidly industrialized without the threat of violence). Why is it that CNN.com only has stories of an American soldier accused of murder in Iraq, anti-Iraq War protests, and chlorine gas attacks? If this does not show an obvious bias in the American media, I do not know what will. If anything, it also shows the bias by the press in the Palestinian conflict, they keep on hoping for peace and calling for a Palestinian state when the Palestinians continue to blow themselves up on a daily basis. Yet in Iraq, where people try to work together, they call that a civil war?

If the Bush administration wants to sway any public opinion, they need to start showing the American public poll results such as these.

Editor’s Note: links and punctuation fixed 3/19 6:30pm

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