Write the NY TIMES and call them on the spinning of this war!

I did and here's the email.

From: Sam Park
Date: Sun Jul 6, 2003 11:11:36 AM US/Pacific
To: Editor NY TIMES
Subject: Re:

I beg to differ with General Myer's assessment of the attacks in Iraq.

<< But General Myers said that it was wrong to think that the entire country was unstable or that coalition troops everywhere were under siege. To bolster his point he broke down the threat by geography and source.

In northern Iraq, which is dominated by Kurds, and the south, where Shiite Muslims prevail, "the situation is basically stable," with water, electric and sanitation systems back to prewar levels or better, General Myers said on Fox TV.

The problem, he added, was in Sunni-dominated central areas, and particularly in a triangle formed by Baghdad; Ramadi, to the west, where a bomb explosion on Saturday killed seven United States-trained Iraqi police recruits marching from their graduation ceremony; and Tikrit, to the northwest, a stronghold of Mr. Hussein.

"That's where 90 percent of the incidents are," he said. >>

And yet we have this story (from AP)

<< Six British Soldiers Killed in S. Iraq
Wed Jun 25, 1:15 AM ET
By STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six British soldiers were killed in a police station in southern Iraq and eight were wounded in a nearby ambush Tuesday, marking the deadliest day of attacks on coalition forces since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The casualties were a shock to British troops occupying the largely Shiite south, which until now had been essentially free of the daily hit-and-run attacks plaguing American soldiers in central and western Iraq. British troops have felt so secure they have been patrolling the country's second-largest city, Basra, without flak jackets or helmets. >>

This attack was not done by one of "five (political) groups" as the General suggests but an angry mob of locals who, wrong or ignorantly, killed the soldiers for reasons stemming from frustrations with the occupation.

The General and the Bush administration that he serves are constantly spinning the situation in Iraq for political purposes. The truth is they were not prepared for occupying the country after the war. Their intelligence on the country was flawed from the beginning and the tragic results are the daily killing of American and British soldiers in what is turning into a bloody quagmire.


Sam F. Park




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