The good news from Iraq is not fit to print

[van whalin]

you dont have tp look too far for good news, try http://www.milmag.com
or www.defenselink.mil

I agree that more networks should report on the good news coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan e.g ITN is a pathetic news organisation they have a section entitled 'another day in Iraq' which only serves to give a death toll for that day, Al jazeera frequently serves up terrorist propaganda and yet we couldn't trust most of the networks to even show the video of zarqawi struggling to work a rifle, then again
yahoo, reuters and many of the major news channels all reported the signing of the constitution aswell as the forming of government some in full stories but mostly as kind of sidenotes.
The fact is News networks couldn't keep an audience if they reported only good news, but you have to wonder whats more important, stories like this

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040506-5.html

or pointless crap like this

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/423473p-357386c.html

although its pretty funny

[van whalin]

The guys in Fords pictures are Prince Abdullah of the house of Saud, he has been instrumental in helping us in the War on terror and is probably one of the most moderate leaders in the arab world, he has tried to end the Arab-Israeli conflict several times, describing him as a terrorist is pretty low,he even payed for the separation of two polish conjoined twins for no other reason than he heard they needed help, his brother on the other hand, prince sultan(picture included) is pretty much despised by everyone in SA, why is he dressed as an astronaut, could this be the next terrorist threat?
The other guy in the picture below is Siva Yam , president of united states-china chamber of commerce, he doesnt strike me as a hardline communist and the following CNN transcript of an interview with him pretty much backs this up.

CLANCY: Siva Yam, your view of this and what it may mean to some changes from the top down regarding human rights in China?

SIVA YAM, U.S.-CHINA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Well, first, we have to look into the history. Human rights issues in China, the situation is much better than 30 years ago when I first went to China. It was, it is better than about 10 years ago. The human rights condition has been improving in China.

I think if we open up the society, it is easier for us to impose the human rights and if we shut China down, close the door for them, there will be more abuses in the human rights. So I think to award Beijing the Olympic 2008 will be beneficial to China and also would be beneficial to the Chinese population around the world
CLANCY: A lot of people, and I want to continue with you, Siva, if I may, a lot of people wondering, well, if you say that it's going to change, when will that change come? One of them certainly is Shan Chengfeng. It's a woman, a member of the outlawed China Democracy Party, who wrote a letter to the IOC last December saying her husband, among others, but all Chinese dissidents held in prison should be released. She's now serving two years in a prison camp. She won't be at the Games.

YAM: Right. Well, first, the Olympic 2008 is seven years from now. I think the conditions in China will continue to improve for two reasons. Number one, for the economic reason. China has been pretty good in economic development, but we all agree that the political development is kind of left behind. In order for Chinese companies to be competitive around the world, just giving people the economic freedom is not going to be enough. At some point in time the political development has to be paid attention to, which I believe the Chinese leaders will do that