Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
You're kidding, right?
Not a buffoon? lol,lol,lol,lol.
Ok...how about uninformed propagandist? Factually impared? Or...better yet...misguided revisionist foreigner.

As far as the article...yellow journalism is rampant in the NY Times, and not the best source for honest representations of the truth, especially in Iraq. How about the fact that the market is open in the first place?
When is the last time you heard the Times write of the infrastructure being expanded and repaired? Where are the stories about the schools that are open to all? The hospitals that care for all Iraqi's, regardless of sect? Where are the stories about the political reconcilliation going on in the Maliki government? What about the facts regarding the overall sucesses the US military training the Itraqi security forces, and the results of that training?

What do you folks think they'd do, going into the Baghdad proper. Drive around in an open-to convertable, like a Kennedy in Dallas? Of couese there was more security. Would be pretty stupid to parade our presidential hopeful, with no additional security.
Tell ya what, let's send those liars, Billary and Osama Obama over there with no security. Just for the fun of watching her "ducking sniper fire" story come full circle, lol.
He may not believe what you mean, but that doesn't mean it's true. Yeah it's true there are many in the media who do not report good news. Heard of the saying 95% of news is bad news? It sells. But that doesn't mean events like this weren't true. That's what politicians do, they stretch the truth, little harm, little foul.

Everyone accuses of media of having some bias and for some part, it's true. Objectivity is slowly being lost.