Mr Hobbs could you please tell me how a blogger gets a photo-correspondent in Iraq?! My I would love to have one! Does the bush administration PAY you to blog photos of smiling iraqi children?

I never doubted for a moment that you would work with "insurgents" as you insist upon calling the Iraqis who rebel against occupation by the US.

I agree with you, we cannot have loose cannons taking photos of the mayhem, murder and misery that the US has created in the middle east. We must present a nice, sweet, Christian picture of the US freeing the Iraqi people in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen.

Is what you are suggesting simply "suppressing" the negetive side of our middle east rearrangements as in the following example?

Washington sought to suppress UN report on progress of democracy in Middle East
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/arab-a09.shtml

This blogger got a photographer-correspondent in Iraq because I knew a soldier being deployed there, set him up a blog, and he has a digital camera.

No the Bush administration doesn't pay me.

We need a UN report on the progress of democracy in the Middle East - for what? We can see it with our own eyes. 8 million purple fingers in Iraq. A Kurd chosen democratically as President of Iraq - by an elected parliament of Sunni, Shiite and Kurds

Democracy demonstrations forcing the Syrians out of Lebanon.

I don't need a UN report to tell me about democracy in the Middle East. The people of the Middle East are telling my their actions that they want it, the sooner the better, and are willing to take big risks to get it.

Yeula, you make less and less sense with each comment you post, and expose yourself more and more as just another leftwing crackpot who actually believes Michael Moore's films are truthful and accurate.

I'll let you abuse my bandwidth for a little while longer, but your comments are so long you really ought to start your own blog. Stay on-topic, avoid wild conspiracy-theory tinfoil hat accusations, provide links and supporting documents for any "facts" you allege, and you can keep posting here. Otherwise, you may lose your privileges.

Mr Hobbs if I put a link on here from Fox Network would that assure anyone that it states the facts and not mere allegations?

In the article I responded to it is YOU who is saying that only pleasing pictures should come out of Iraq and you called a photographer a "ghoul" for photographing human misery that resulted from our illegal invasion. (It is illegal based upon the precedents of Nuremberg, google it and see for yourself).

If you desire links then here are some showing that Iraqis want the US OUT of their country, contary to your insistance that they are all happy.
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Huge Anti Occupation Protests on anniversary of Saddam's fall:

Tens of thousands of followers of a rebel Shi'ite cleric have marched in Baghdad to denounce the U.S. presence in Iraq. Related protests were held in Ramadi, a Sunni Arab city west of Baghdad, and in Baiji, another largely Sunni town north of the capital, showing the widespread support for the demands.
http://snipurl.com/dx0g

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Thousands protest U.S. on Baghdad anniversary:

Demonstrators demand end to presence of foreign troops
http://snipurl.com/dx0g

The photographs tell the story... :

Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm

http://snipurl.com/15uf

Yeula, please show me where I said tha t "only pleasing pictures should come out of Iraq" or similar words.

I didn't.

I never have.

And I most certainly have never said that all Iraqis are "happy."

I am merely urging balance - that the press show the good and the bad.

And in the specific case of this photographer raising the issue of whether he, in fact, actually is working with the terrorist "insurgents." Given that an Iraqi cameraman working for CBS has just been arrested for the same thing, it's a question worth asking. Given that I write a lot here about media issues, it's a very valid question.

You note the protest in Baghdad. Tens of thousands of protestors.

But you wish to ignore that the rest of the nation's 25 million people did NOT join that protest, and in fact public opinion polls taken across Iraq show that the majority of Iraqis are glad we ousted Saddam, and don't want us to leave their country until the terrorist "insurgency" is put down.

Yeula, I have been extremely patient with you and your myriad of very long comments. But you are testing the limits of that patience by making false claims about what I wrote, and by writing long screeds that veer way off the topic of the post. I've already had to delete a few of your posts for foul language and a few because they had NOTHING to do with the topic of the post - two violations of my comments policy.

Please, in the future, keep your posts STRICTLY on the topic of the post, do NOT set up straw men or make false charges, and supply documents to back up your assertions. Or they will be deleted and you banned from posting more comments

It also would be helpful if someone who posts as many comments as you do were to provide your name and some idea of who you are/what you do. People might want to know if you are a highly accomplished and educated thinker or just a 15-year-old regurgitating the MoveOn.org and International A.N.S.W.E.R. talking points.