The Religious Bigorty of CNN NewsNight "Morning Papers"

It was an Hour at the Movies again wtih very little validity to any of the segments.

The time breakdown was per usual Aaron, about 13 minutes, live 5
Others - 32 minutes
Commercials - 15 minutes

There were ONLY three Soldiers listed:
Age 21 - Choi
Age 19 - Giles
Age 31 - Crackel

Currently there are 1770 dead Americans.
This 'Honor Segment' hasn't even come close.

You don't have the newsprint, NewsNight, I won't mention it here as it appears to be uncooperative. Probably have a reason to be and I congratulate them.

Christian Science Moron - itor - they are grossly Anti-Semitic (The Christian S & M Assessment of Disengagement) vs. (The Rest of the World)

Rocky Mountain News
San Antonio Express
Washington Times
The Examiner
The Times - London
The Daily News
The Times Herald Record
Dallas Morning News

Aaron Brown wrote his own e-mail tonight but was NOT ALLOWED to personally host his intro to his show contents.

Unbelievable.

The Religious Bigorty of CNN NewsNight "Morning Papers"

Brownsville Herald
The Times - London

The Christian Science Monitor

Chattanooga times
Washington times
Chicago sun times

The Religious Bigotry of CNN's NewsNight "Morning Papers"

There was no 'Honor Segmet' tonight for the USA Military.

International Herald ribune
Washington Times
The Detroit News
Oregonian
Newsday
Boston Herald

Christian Science Monitor

Chicago Sun Times

No, Ms. Bigot, I am not a well behaved Jew. Nor am I seeking retribution that is unwarranted. Yes, I have planned to do the review of the Sunday Program on "Progress in Iraq." There is too much wrong. I would have done this and that anyway. It's the facts. Only the facts.

The H3 commercial is to promote the military.

CNN's Progress Report on Iraq

The "Progress Report" on Iraq aired on Sunday evening and Sunday night. There were improvements from the Friday presentation.

The commercial content broke down to one Big Oil commercial and 10% minority commercials.

That was an improvement over Friday.

I don't consider commercials with large pasture lands to be minority commercials although there are no people but cows. I also don't consider car commercials without noting the driver as a minority commercial or big money interests either. It is my experience to date there are no African-Americans, except Vernon Jordon on a few Boards, that actually have CEO positions on Fortune 500 companies or those of the Dow. So, all those commercials were considered caucasian interest commercials. You gotta show the skin so the message is clear.

You know the commercials you like, Sharon. Like the black lady standing in the 'clean environment' of a tiled bathroom stating she loves chocolate followed by the Bank of America housing bubble commercials turning shabby neighborhoods into refurnished flower box unites. I don't really consider those minority commercials either. I consider those to be a bigoted and a judgmental slap in the face. Hopelessness breeds helplessness and this nations impoverished knows the reality. Besides gentrification or big government projects usually displace the poor to some place else and somebody else's problem. Besides improving tax revenue on city property there is less police force needed when gentrificaiton occurs. So there is a lot of incentive to move people along. You're hoping those commercials will 'kick the Blacks of this nation' in the butt to realize they ain't going to be looked at or after anymore. That's highly bigoted stuff.

But, this isn't about the USA's problems at home, this is about Iraq and more specifically Baghdad. So, we persist.

The filming and some of the narrative was by two Iraqi journalists who had a mission to find the upside of Baghdad. They succeeded. Their contribution was vitally important. It clearly demonstrated all the ethnicities were blind to each other's differences and while there was resistance fighting in Iraq and in Baghdad the average citizens were all determined to make the best of life and into a life where they were respected as people. With scenes from cafes wher people of all walks of life gathered, I think the common thread by these two very capable Iraqi journalists was that the ethnicities of Iraq did not hate each other. They were all pulling together and the Shi'ite majority in the new central authority didn't seem to matter so much to anyone. I did not hear one Iraqi complain about their new government. I did hear a great deal of discomfort regarding the occupation and Bush's inability to deliver on his promises.

There were interesting stories, one involving a racehorse track. Previous to the invasion the facility already existed so this was a return to function if not normalcy by the proprietor of a facility called, The Equestrian Club. After the invasion the facility was looted, but, it's proprietor somehow put it back together, found the horses and now they still race everyday. There was once when resistance fighting broke out near the track and one of the jockeys stated a horse received a bullet in the chest. Evidently, there was no report of the horse dying. Just another lovely day in Baghdad.

The Executive Producer of this hour long presentation wants everyone to get mad as hell about the issues of gunfire and mount the cannons yourself to defeat the resistance movement. That is not my first reaction especially after some of the other content presented.

These 'life in the face of death' events which I'll refer to along the way here were also enhanced and truthfully so that Iraqis were enjoying communication freedom. There were more cell phones (? al Qaeda ?) which seemed to be more popular than any other phone, there are more landline phones, more computers to pick up those critical updates from bin Laden, more newspapers, magazines, radio stations and television broadcasts. All in all the Iraqis are receiving greater freedom of expression through open communication but then so are the resistance fighters. The al Qaeda issues along with the Iraqi Resistance fighter benefiting from these new freedoms are a side effect of an open society. We are always concerned about that in the USA, but, the odds of danger to citizens greatly increase in Baghdad. I said Baghdad not the entire of Iraq. Then again if this ability to communicate openly is the only pleasure the Iraqi people are experiencing then to stop that would cause up rise.

The electricity of Iraq that the Iraqi people always complain about hasn 't improved. Each household where there is a house gets about 9 hours a day of electricity rather than 12 hours. Which causes me to wonder if there is mostly rubble in places like Fallujah where is the electricity going?

The unemployment hadn't really improved but there was a slight increase from last year but that isn't how it was noted in the expose'. Halliburton is still in Iraq but none of that was brought up until CNN Presents wanted to discuss Fallujah. So, let's get down to the real nitty gritty. Shall we?

The opening segment was by Nic Robertson who ventured out into Iraq to find the Insurgents. The people the USA call insurgents call themselves resistance fighters. That is how I will refer to them here. They are very sane people who have contemplated this resistance and practiced for it since before the invasion.

They have names such as Abu Omar and Abu Mohammad. These names were alias. The actual Arabic understanding of the name of "Abu" is to indictate it is a false identity. Abu also means father. The General of these fighters showed pictures of himself as an officer in the Iraqi Army before the removal of Saddam from leadership in Iraq. According to the report by Nic, which is more accurate than anyone else I know at CNN besides perhaps Christiana Amanpour these men are in complete control of their situation. They can turn it on or off like a faucet. General Abu Omar was in charge of 20% of the resistance fighters but stated he influenced 80%. He stated they all have plans of stopping but they just aren't sure exactly when they will stop.

The good General stated he was aware of the presence of al Qaeda and the forces there that operated in Baghdad but they only came to support the Iraqi resistance and would stay to the end of the struggle. Got that? Al Qaeda is not interested in undermining the Islamic people of Iraq but only the Americans and their coalition, hence, Blair is again right in that the policies of Iraq are playing out in London through al Qaeda's support to the resistance efforts.

Now, so far we have a former Iraqi Army Commander who has influence over 80% of the Iraqi Resistance fighters and at least direct control of 20% of those same fighters along with the fact he knows al Qaeda will stop their attacks when the Iraqi resistance is finished with their battle. Somehow everything Bush is saying about his 'insurgents' better known in Iraq as resistance fighters just doesn't pan out.

Abu Mohammad who is a resistance leader stated the Americans are ideologues and are interested more in their politics than in the best interest of the Iraqi people. The guy is informed from somewhere. He obviously is drawing what he considers to be valid complaints about his experience in Iraq. We have some very savvy Iraqis here.

Noted in Nic's report is the fact Iraqi resistance fighters will join al Qaeda over their own resistance fighters if they are more interested in immediate results. In other words, al Qaeda brings a certain 'expertise/specialty' to the battle scene and it is seen as far more violent and effective.

Who then are these men who dare to stand up to the USA?

By every accounting throughout the program these men have lost people, family mostly to the invasion and the resistance fighting afterward. You have to remember that death to Muslims is far more overpowering than life. So, when someone in the family dies they are revered in a very different way than we in the USA are revered especially if they died in the battle for Islam. So, to continue to kill these people just doesn't make sense as that only increases their resolve AND their numbers.

The numbers of resistance fighters are significant. To date General Abu Omar estimates the resistance force to be about 400,000 men strong realizing there are 30,000 detained, 10,000 injured and another 10,000 dead. Now to realize there are 10,000 dead is to realize those figures are about resistance fighters alone and not civilians adding to the understanding the number of dead Iraqis is way off at about 15,000. Therefore, in the face of these numbers "The Lancet" is looking more like the authority in this area. The resistance movement carries out about 300 to 400 attacks per week. That is a far more significant number that is ever reported in the USA news media bringing again into question the Iraqi civilian dead. The attacks don't necessarily inflict injury or death either as was demonstrated by the race horse that received a bullet.

During the two plus years the USA has been in Iraq the prevailing culture has turned from 'Heart of Islamic Pilgrimage' to one of a resistance culture. With that realized the 'Hearts and Minds Campaign' of the occupying USA Coalition is not necessarily winning on their front either. This is the culture the Holy Men have to contend with as people continue to die all around the countryside. Even resistance fighters are somebody's son.

To conclude this aspect of this text, or as Bush sees it, a complaint; there was an astounding film footage of USA General Spider Marks. His claim to fame is the fact he has experience in watching this resistance movement grow. He states that as if that is an asset somehow and he the authority.

To reflect on what I have learned from Nic I would say 'Spider' has little reason to be proud. One of the statements by General Abu Omar was that the USA never took the time to understand the Sunnis. In other words, "Spider" didn’t' see understanding the enemy who makes up the battlefield as important. All "Spider" knows is his logistics and where next to send troops to kill resistance fighters. That is why the USA is losing their effort to a greater extent. They never stopped to understand their opposition. They only wanted to understand their own muscle bound ability to kill with the Powell's Doctrine of overwhelming force. "Spider" only wants to understand killing and the effectiveness of it. Well, with a resistance movement of 400,000 men, with plenty of ammunition backed by fighters from al Qaeda this could go on forever.

It's thought there is a movement within the Sunni community; there are those in the resistance that are signing on to the new government. Nic attending a meeting with Aikam Ashammad who was trying to bring the resistance fighters into his camp to stop the violence and become part of the government that wasn't happening.

I don't know how such a organization is going to get off the ground because the men that are fighting the coalition are not coming to a fully televised meeting. Consequently, there was not one representative in the room from any of the resistance organizations. So to place hope on this possibility is not realistic.

Another place where it is highly questionable to the 'real' identity of the Iraqi government is what the USA sees as the legitimate government of that country. At local council meetings there is minimally one USA soldier sitting at the council meeting. Why? How can the Iraqis carry out their business agenda if a non-resident is attending the meeting. It's a form of oppression. What I want to know is where are the real meetings taking place. The meetings of only the town councils without the presence of USA military? Because I guarantee you there are such meetings and much is accomplished outside the public forum whereby USA soldiers are in attendance.

People like Marine Colonel Thomas X. Hamas seem to think it will take at least nine years for this resistance to stop as that is the average. It 's reassuring to know Iraq is considered average. It may not be considering this is the heart of Islam and this man's army has never faced sustained resistance with al Qaeda.

Colonel Hamas also made reference to Vietnam.

It was outrageous.

He tried to justify the USA occupation in Iraq by stating if we stayed in Vietnam we would have been victorious due to the fact 1972 was their best year. Best year at WHAT? Killing? That is how the USA military garners success? Killing and oppression?

There is nothing wrong with Vietnam today that strong economic ties to the real world won't solve and although it remains an unpopular stand; Ho Chi Minh loved those people. He was educated by the French and while he despised the French occupation of Vietnam he first came to the USA optimistically to unite the North and South and relieve the French of their occupation. What Ho naively didn't realize was France and the USA were committed to each other through SEATO. Ho then became the enemy even though he was right. For a USA Colonel to come forward and state we should have stayed longer, killed more to ? attempt ? to prevail all to justify a further occupation in Iraq is the most ludicrous statement I have ever heard.

A decade. They are saying this will continue a decade. A decade of killing will result in less people of Iraqi decent in Iraq so much as others who run Halliburton.

The next stop is what this "Progress Report" deems as "The Fight for Iraq." Fallujah. This is where four private contractors, I believe it was Halliburton, were hung from the bridge and eventually burnt and dragged through the streets. Fallujah was defined in this expose' as the battle of all battles. It defined the conflict in this country. It was the Sunni stronghold and to take Fallujah from the Sunnis and keep it from the Sunnis would serve to demoralize the resistance. I don't think it was all that but it was fought to impact on Islam and not so much the Iraqi resistance. Leveling Fallujah made the resistance more determined and it was after that more al Qaeda was witnessed in Iraq with severity of attacks and intensity as well. Fallujah was the city where hope was to live to most Islamists. It was the hope of the resistance and when the USA demolished Fallujah it's goal was also to break the will of Islam. That didn't happen and hasn't happened today.

There was conflicting messages by Jane Arraf during this segment. Her first statement was that she was an 'imbed' with the military while Fallujah was attacked. She stated at one point there seemed to be more dead resistance fighters than live civilians indicating the reason to enter Fallujah was justified as there was mostly 'insurgents' there and not civilians. That statement is conflicted after a time when she discusses the home the military and she occupied while the fighting was going on as empty as was most of the streets of Iraq. During this time the majority of the civilian population before the invasion of Fallujah escaped as refugees. So the truth indeed is that there were more dead resistance fighters than civilians because the majority of civilians were gone.

They left Fallujah before the attack.

Now, it would seem they had returned and the house that was shelter to the military now had it's rightful occupants living there. It gets pretty ludicrous from there with USA soldiers stating their attacks were ordered by Allawi (The Iraqi Government) but the real upside was the millions of dollars that were going to come to them to rebuild. And indeed there was a film clip of an Iraqi man, at least we think it is, doing exactly that in Fallujah. He was moving the rubble that was once a home brick by brick to another brick pile to try and discover what might be left of what was once his home. Now, mind you, this is Fallujah the home of the Sunnis. The man moving the bricks was probably one of the surviving resistance fighters as he was wearing a scarf around his face. I realize most people in Iraq who don't want to be recognized and will do this even if it's to protect the innocent but that is the issue now isn't it. Like Vietnam we don't know who is the so called enemy or not, now do we?

The Midway point of the program there is a lot of nonsense about the Big Events that are power events like the elections and the upcoming constitution and how this is important to the Iraqi social psychology in establishing there democracy in the face of such violence. There were pictures of Bush and Rice and all their bragging about "Mission Accomplished" and somehow all they said just faded to black in the reality of the rest of the show.

There were scenes of a wedding and children in school and movie makers huddling in an apartment to enjoy to some extent 'a life.' Those events were people living inspite of it all because there isn't anything else to do. There was a statement by a young man who's father was an exceptional man in town stating, (paraphrasing) 'It was upto them to build Iraq to serve as a home where all could live peacefully together in Iraq.' That film clip left me realizing that young man was from a family that has not yet experienced a death to the war and would he say the same thing IF that were to occur.

Basically, I think the USA's priority of continuing this conflict is ludicrous and counter productive and at some point it will become obvious. It's just unfortunate so much of 'Bush's Metal' is measured by Iraq while it is failing so miserably.

We don't belong in Iraq and if the generals are counting on the USA people to back them for the next ten years to 'get the job done.' I don't think so.

We need a timetable for an exit of Iraq and soon.

Progress Report in Iraq: Overview of Life, War and Reconstruction

Aired July 15, 2005 - 22:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

AARON BROWN, HOST: Good evening again.When a story unfolds over months, then years, the daily reports have a tendency to blur, especially when that story is a war. Most nights, we in television can only show you the latest battles, the block by block victories, grief and terrible images of death. Eighteen children killed in a suicide bombing as they waited for candy, toys from American troops. The pain of those left behind. Inevitably, the episodic updates by their very nature miss the other stories, the ones that don't make the headlines. So we've asked several of our producers and correspondents to help us catch our collective breath, if you will, and deliver a progress report, thought the word "progress" itself is open to debate, on the state of play in Iraq today. Before we tackle the thorny issues of policy and politics, we're going to do something we hardly get a chance to do. And that is take a long look at what life is like for Iraqis, ordinary Iraqi civilians. For various reasons, most of them have to do with staying alive, Western journalists in Iraq don't get out much these days. So, we've asked two of our Arab producers in Baghdad, Kianne Sadeq and Ayman Mohyeldin to spend a week focusing on normal life, as normal as it gets in Iraq, in this time of war.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KIANNE SADEQ, CNN PRODUCER (voice-over): What I really wanted to accomplish in this mission of ours, was to kind of have middle-class, Baghdad families, you know, living their life on a daily basis.

AYMAN MOHYELDIN: When we set out that day, we knew what direction we wanted to go to. But we had no idea of what specific place we were going to go to. And we never expected that when we were going to get to a coffee shop, we were going to meet a poet and a doctor and people that were such close friends who have known each other for decades.

(on camera) There was no differences. It seemed like there was no class difference. There was no religious differences. There was no ethnic differences. Everybody in there was there because they loved the atmosphere.

SADEQ (on camera): People try to find pleasure where they can. But in Baghdad, frustration is more than just a passing, emotional state. It's a permanent state of mind.

(voice-over) We went to one of the capital's gas stations, where fuel lines can last hours, and sometimes even days.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): There's no future at all. We've given up. We have depression now. There's no water. No electricity. No kerosene. No propane. No benzene. No security. So, what's going on? What have we gotten from this government?

MOHYELDIN: In the two years since the war, my impression has been that Iraqis are living their lives somewhere between. Between freedom and occupation. Between hope and fear. In between destruction and development. And really, in between life and death.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): It's true we are out to have a good time. But we are scared at the same time. When we walk or we sit here, our hand is on our heart, with fear of a car bomb, or a mortar, God forbid.

MOHYELDIN (voice-over): With all the stuff that's happening in Iraq on a daily basis, I was still surprised to see that people can escape that and go to, you know, the horse races. And enjoy life.

INAN AYAD, JOCKEY (through translator): We have gotten used to the situation. It doesn't really matter. Whatever God wills will happen. We had a horse not too long ago that was racing on the track. And all of a sudden, a gun fight broke out with some insurgents nearby. And a stray bullet hit him in the chest in the middle of the race.

MOHYELDIN: The equestrian club is the only one in Baghdad. And in the aftermath of the war, it was ravaged by looters. We had a chance to meet the president of the club, Mr. Luay Saadi. And he was determined to keep the club open at any cost.

LUAY SAADI, PRESIDENT, THE EQUESTRIAN CLUB: You know, in Iraq now, we don't have many places to go. We don't have things to do, as usual, because of the general situation. So, our aim, our goal, what you call in English, is keeping this race. The horses, you cannot replace it.

MOHYELDIN: His family was incredible. When I met them for the first time, we walked into their house. They were very welcoming.

(on camera) This family embraced us, as if we had known them for years. They didn't hide the fact that there was no water, so that they had to have kettles of water outside their house. And you know, they weren't ashamed of that. They showed us where the generator was. And they showed us, really, how they live. I was surprised to learn that they were actually a mixed family. You know, the father was Sunni. The mother was Shiite. They had a great sense of pride in being a mixed Iraqi family. They don't see the divisions that we hear about on a regular basis. They live in the intersection of two very dangerous neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that we've known to be notorious for, you know, attacks.

MARWA SAADI, DAUGHTER OF LUAY SAADI: There's no safety here. You are living in a war. You feel like it. All the time, you hear -- you hear sounds of guns. Of Hummers. Just sounds make you feel afraid.

MOHYELDIN: Do you regret not taking any of those decisions to leave?

L. SAADI: Some times for a very short little time or moments, if -- that's all. But really, in my inside me, I am happy with what I've got -- with what I've got.

MOHYELDIN: What was neat about them is that they were actually -- I would say, in between being pessimistic and understanding their responsibility as citizens of this country.

TAYEB LUAY SAADI, SON OF LUAY SAADI: No, I won't leave.

SADEQ: Why?

T. SAADI: Because you have to build this country. We should stop saying "we hope, we hope." Because hoping is not going to change this problem and this situation. So, we must try to do something to change it.

MOHYELDIN: The father seemed adamant about what he saw as America's failure in trying to get it right. L. SAADI: As Mr. Rumsfeld said, 135 (sic) soldiers are enough. Let him take his soldiers now. He can't. Let him see how long he will stay. He can't. Let him say that it will keep security. He can't.

MOHYELDIN: Every Iraqi that I spoke to, not a single person came out and said, the situation was good, the situation was on the right track, or that the situation in Iraq was getting better.

SADEQ: I don't think the Iraqis want the Americans to pull out. I think the Iraqis want the Americans to be invisible. I think the Iraqis are afraid to be alone right now. But at the same time, they are hurt to see them around because they don't feel like they're in control of their own country.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN: We'll have more from our two producers later in the hour. But now, a look at a place that most of you think of as nothing but a blasted and deserted war zone, Falluja, the former insurgent stronghold that was liberated at terrible cost by U.S. and Iraqi forces. Today, residents are picking up pieces, trying to rebuild shattered lives. CNN's Jane Arraf was there during the worst of it. And she returned to Falluja, to see what is working now, and what isn't.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you were seeing the city for the first time, you'd think it was in terrible shape. The people who lived through the battle for Falluja believe these are some of the city's better days. This was the city where foreign fighters and insurgents chose to make a stand, where the sight of dead American contractors, dragged through the streets, was a marker on the road to all-out battle. Several thousand Iraqis are believed to have lost their lives in Falluja. Ten percent of U.S. forces killed in Iraq, more than 170 Marines, soldiers and sailors, have died here. We were with U.S. forces in November, as they rolled into neighborhoods and raided buildings we'd been warned had been rigged by insurgents to explode. Fighting continued for days, until there seemed to be more dead insurgents than live civilians. Coming back with the Marines, the most dangerous part is the highway. On what looks like an empty road, insurgents have found increasingly sophisticated ways to rig improvised bombs. In the city, entire blocks were turned into rubble. With the first compensation from the Iraqi government, people have started rebuilding their homes. Each brick, a sign of optimism. Some of the worst fighting was in the north of Falluja. I wasn't sure what we'd find when we went back to the Shorada (ph) neighborhood, to an abandoned house we knew well in November.

(on camera) We stayed in this house with U.S. soldiers we were embedded with during the battle. The house was empty. The neighborhood was entirely deserted. But now, this family has moved back to renovate it. And they say most of their neighbors have moved back, as well.

(voice-over) This was the neighborhood of Afah Stawasi's (ph) house. The family received about $1,400 in compensation, enough to renovate the first floor but not enough to replace the furniture. Senara (ph) has henna on her hands, a traditional form of celebration, because she says she's so happy to be home again. She says her heart weeps when she remembers what it was like to flee the city and live like refugees in the countryside. Her husband has taught his children to say, "my friend" to the Marines. It's the Iraqi forces he's wary of. This Marine officer asks him to be patient.

MAJOR CHRIS PHELPS, U.S. MARINE CORPS: Your government made the decision to come into Falluja and get rid of the terrorists. They've also made the decision for hundreds of millions of dollars to come into Falluja to make it better. It's not perfect. It's not perfect. But it's getting better.

ARRAF: With half the population of Falluja believed to have returned, the military is trying to prevent insurgents from creeping back into the city that's seen so much devastation.

(on camera) The fighting that we saw here was some of the worst for a city since the Vietnam War. There's been so much destruction, so much bloodshed that Falluja has become a symbol of the battle for Iraq. And whether the city recovers is seen as a test for the whole country.

(voice-over) It's a test of whether a fiercely Sunni tribal city can find a place in a country now dominated by Shias and Kurds. A test of whether those in power can finally figure out who to trust. On Falluja's most-wanted list, there's a picture missing. Isah (ph), previously considered an insurgent leader, who's now a member of the city council.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've actually had one of them come through. But he's determined to now be a good guy, helping us out.

ARRAF: If there is a future here, it seems to be in men like Army General Mahdi Sabiya Kassam (ph), here at this meeting of the new city council, tribal leaders and the Marines. He told the meeting, "Of General Mahdi (ph) is killed, there will be General Salah (ph) to replace him. If Salah (ph) has gone, there's Kareem (ph). And another and another and another." The future may also rely on men like council member Abbas Ali Hussein (ph), who says Sunnis won't repeat the mistake of boycotting the elections. And on Iraqi Lieutenant Sabbah Ismail (ph), so dedicated to his job as commander, the Marines say, he doesn't go home. There's progress here, but it's precarious. There are only 90 police in this city. In a few months, there will be 1,200. The people here want policemen from Falluja, not those from the north and south. There are about 800 Iraqi soldiers, but residents here don't trust them. Almost everyone we meet complains they're too aggressive, that they shoot wildly in the air, that they beat up civilians. Even the schoolteacher complains about them. "They're occupying schools Falluja needs," she says. People here take education very seriously. While students in the rest of the country are on summer vacation, here, they're making up for time lost during the fighting. Students are sitting for sixth grade exams in this renovated building. But classes are held in tents, with no electricity, 90 students to one teacher. Amid (ph) didn't get to go to school. He tells me he had to quit to work. He'd like the soldiers to fix his bike. A broken bike is one thing they can fix. A broken city will take the will of an entire country. Jane Arraf, CNN, Falluja.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN: A lot more to come tonight as we continue our progress report on the war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAITH KUBBA, IRAQI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: Democracy in its initial phases is messy.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: This political process is moving forward. BROWN (voice-over): That said, how to measure success. And how to decide if and when to leave?

LESLIE GELB, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: I think we'll be able to tell when there's victory or when we're on the way to victory, by one simple measure.

BROWN: Later, the first rough draft of history.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The memory of Saddam is a strong incentive to push in the direction they've been going for the last two years. BROWN: Our conversation with one of the people writing it. Then, life in Iraq, the good, the bad and the stunning. One award-winning still photo at a time. Because this is NEWSNIGHT.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ERICA HILL, HEADLINE NEWS: I'm Erica Hill with the headlines, starting with new developments in the London bombing investigation. News being made from Pakistan to Egypt, to Great Britain. Reporting for us tonight, CNN's Nic Robertson.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Police forensic teams seized computers from the Hamara Islamic Community Center, close to where at least two of the suspected bombers lived. It is here that CNN has learned of the first reported sighting of suspected bombers, Hasib Hussain, Shahzad Tanweer, and Mohammed Sadique Khan together. A local resident, who didn't want to be identified, told me how the three men repeatedly used the Hamara Community Center over recent months.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They always used to wait for all three guys to meet before they get inside the Hamara youth association point.

ROBERTSON (on camera): They would go in and shut the door and put a sign...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. A sign that they are going for lunch.

ROBERTSON: But really they were inside?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were inside. And that's what they've always been doing.

ROBERTSON: Exactly what brought Hussain, Tanweer and Khan together is still central to the police investigation. Equally important, who financed them? And what motivated them? And how do they connect to the other pieces of this puzzle, both here in Leeds and elsewhere.

(voice-over) In Cairo, Egyptian biochemist Magdy el-Nashar was taken into custody Thursday night at Cairo airport. He is believed to be linked to this residence in Leeds, where police discovered homemade TATP explosives, the same explosive used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. El-Nashar was last seen here two weeks ago, at Leeds University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry in May. Police refused to comment on his arrest and how he may be linked to the case. Significantly, the police are not backing off from their initial suggestion al Qaeda was somehow involved in the attacks.

SIR IAN BLAIR, METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER: What we expect to find at some stage, is that there is a clear al Qaeda link, a clear al Qaeda approach.

ROBERTSON: from Pakistan, which is becoming another focal point for investigators, one source tells CNN, Tanweer attended a religious school, with links to radical Islamists, late last year. It is likely, though, it's here in Leeds that many of the key discoveries, like who knew what, when, where and how, will be made. But it looks like that will take quite some time. Nic Robertson, CNN, Leeds.

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HILL: An especially bloody day in Iraq. Eight car bombs going off in and around Baghdad alone. This as lawmakers trying out to hammer out a constitution. Now, according to American commanders, as many as 30 people died in the attacks. Two Marines were killed elsewhere.A lawyer close to the investigation says Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, spoke to Robert Novak just days before the columnist and CNN contributor wrote a column outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. They say Novak initiated the call and reportedly identified Ms. Plame, to which Mr. Rove replied, "I heard that, too," apparently confirming the story. Hurricane Emily weakening a bit today then picked back up and is once again a Category 3 storm. Forecasters say it could approach Texas or northern Mexico by next Tuesday. And that's a look at the headlines. Back now to NEWSNIGHT's special coverage, Iraq.

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BROWN: In the first part of our look at everyday Baghdad, one of our producers said that, to Iraqis, frustration is a permanent state of mind. Perhaps.But the human animal being what it is, it is not all that surprising to find that, even there, there are those who have enough faith, enough optimism to celebrate what they have. We continue our reporting by CNN producers Ayman Mohyeldin and Kianne Sadeq. A look inside everyday life in Baghdad.

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SADEQ (voice-over): Just outside this tunnel of blast walls, we reached a Baghdad heaven.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello. SADEQ: The Alwiyah (ph) club is a recreational club in Baghdad. They just go to this club on a daily basis to just have a good time. We walked into a wedding and asked them to let us shoot their wedding. Oftentimes, you know, women would be nervous about outsiders filming their wedding. But in this wedding, it was wide-open. People were just being themselves. And when we spoke to the mother, she said to me, this is something they needed to do, for their children.

SANAA BAHRI, BRIDE'S MOTHER (through translator): We want the coming days to be happiness and joy. Enough war. Enough blood. Enough pain. We're tired. We're really tired. So, we bring pleasure to our children by these joyous events so that they look forward to the future with hope. SADEQ: The father of the bride was an ex-captain in the Iraqi navy. My first impression was what an optimistic family. Why are they optimistic? How are they so optimistic in this time? It was only when I sat with him, one on one, I got the sense that he was upset.

CAPTAIN ESSAM AL-HUSSAINI, BRIDE'S FATHER: I don't know what's happening. I mean, is it true that the Americans, they didn't plan it well? Or did they misunderstand what the Iraqis behavior? People are afraid. I'm afraid for my son to go to school. I am afraid for my eldest son, a doctor, to travel to his hospital. I cannot send my daughter to the university. They had Bush and the administration, and we were very, very happy when he said that Iraq will be -- set an example in the Middle East. It will be one of the best countries in the Middle East. We appreciate his words. But I don't know. I mean, is it true that the great America cannot fulfill their promises?

SADEQ (on camera): We walked into this apartment, in one of Baghdad's safer neighborhoods. Not too safe. And there was this small apartment, which this group of filmmakers had made for themselves into their own paradise.

MOHYELDIN: These filmmakers, they welcomed Americans with open arms when they first came. But then, they saw them as occupiers, taking control of their country and their city. But they also realized that they had a chance and the freedom to express themselves in a way that they never had before the Americans came.

AMMAR SAAD, FILMMAKER (through translator): now, I can make any film I want. I can make films about communism, Islam, anything.

SADEQ: So here were all these filmmakers who were able to take Baghdad with all the destruction in it, and make it into this canvas for their artwork that looks so beautiful. Like this film they made about the dangers of being a journalist in Baghdad.

SALMAN ADEL, FILMMAKER: You have so many relatives killed, siblings, relatives, brothers, sisters, whatever, in every single house. You have to understand that life is difficult. And the difficulty of living is the -- is the motivator of ideas.

SAAD (through translator): I say that there is chaos, destruction, devastation, killing, terrorism, and everything. But on the other hand, there is life.

SADEQ: To me, the optimism of these artists captured something essential about Iraqis. People have seen beautiful Baghdad turn into a war zone. They wanted to see Iraq be the beautiful Iraq that they love.

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BROWN: Just ahead on this special edition of NEWSNIGHT, the United States went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction which did not exist. The country has stayed to ensure democracy. Does that exist? Will it? Will it ever? A break first. Around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.

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BROWN: Political process and Iraq, words we doubt were often spoken in the same sentence in the years of Saddam Hussein. Yet, long after Saddam's removal from power, the struggle for democracy in Iraq remains just that. A struggle. CNN's chief national correspondent, John King, reports.

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JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a powerful moment. Yet also, a sober lesson. No matter how historic, one election does not a democracy make. The challenges on Iraq's path from dictatorship to democracy, at times, seemed too many to count. The most urgent, all too obvious.

KUBBA: Democracy in its initial phases is messy. It's not an ordinary transition under normal circumstances.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact that the insurgents can knock out generators, the fact that they can knock out oil pipelines, the fact that there are organized crime rings that disrupt the flow of goods and people along Iraq's roads, it makes it hard to rebuild your lives exactly the way that Iraqis want to.

KING: And hard to build trust in a fledgling new government, all the more so, because of what many Iraqis view as an unwelcome military occupation. Not to mention history.

GELB: It's going to be hard without a democratic experience to be a democracy. Creating democracy in Iraq is going to be far harder than it was for us here in the United States. And it was hard for us. We forget that.

BUSH: Rebuilding a country after three decades of tyranny is hard. But progress is being made.

KING: And yet, from the white house perspective, so far, so good.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: This political process is moving forward. And at the end of the year, you will have elections for a new government in Iraq. And that will create a new set of political circumstances, when they have a permanent government.

KING: But meeting deadlines, like holding an election, and even writing a constitution, doesn't necessarily prove democracy is taking root.

KENNETH POLLACK, BROOKINGS INSTITUTE: I think it's a mistake to keep begging our hopes to these major events. Events like the election are important, psychological milestones. But they're not necessarily major factors in determining whether or not Iraqi democracy can succeed.

KING: Trust is one missing ingredient. In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Sunnis held sway, despite their minority status in Iraq's population. Now, many Sunnis say the Shia and Kurds are bent on retribution.

TARIQ AL-HASHIMI, IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY: I think from the beginning, the Sunni community has been marginalized. And this -- the current government, unfortunately, in fact, is deep in this marginalization.Reporter: But government spokesman Lait Kuba (ph) sees proof negotiations to bring Sunnis into the political fold are making progress.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The insurgency now is attacking Sunni neighborhoods, in the same way it attacks Shia neighborhoods. They are attacking those who try to lead Sunnis into the political process. That has exposed the insurgency as an insurgency against democracy, against the Iraqi people.

KING: Mistrust, even hatred in some cases, is both an obstacle to democracy, and a motivating force.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you have groups that are determined to stir up violence, to try to create more breathing space, space for the movement, it becomes critical that the political process continues, otherwise the country will end up in civil war.

KING: Saddam's iron fist and those festering ethnic and tribal tensions, loom large in the new debate of what a new Iraq should look like. Who big of a role Islam should play. And just how strong the central government should be.

GELB: I think in order to keep Iraq together, as one country, the irony is, you're going to have to give virtual autonomy to each of the three major groups, to run its own affairs. That way, they'll have confidence that when the laws are to be made in the future, they'll essentially be making the laws for themselves.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Iraq needs a strong state. The only thing that will defeat the insurgency in this tough neighborhood in Iraq, is to have a strong state.

KING: Progress does not come without a price. Success in writing the new constitution would bring new pressures, including stronger calls for American troops to go home.

AL-HASHIMI: Time comes, in fact, that those who assist us in taking back our liberty, they should leave our country as soon as possible.

KING: But the White House sees the troop commitment stretching well into next year and beyond, because of the security problems and because it knows even a second election in post-Saddam Iraq will not be a final verdict in democracy.

POLLACK: There certainly are Islamists who would like to be voted into office. And like Hitler, have the democracy evaporate with that one vote.

GELB: I think we'll be able to tell when there's victory or when we're on the way to victory, by one, simple measure -- that is, whether, particularly in the center of Iraq, people can come out on the streets, and begin to lead normal lives.

BROWN: Still to come tonight, a soldier's journey from the dusty streets of Falluja, to his return home. And the man who stayed with him all the way. From New York, this is a special edition of NEWSNIGHT.

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BROWN: A number of journalists have died covering the war in Iraq. One of them Michael Kelly, the editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." there's an award given to journalists in Kelly's memory. And tonight's NEWSNIGHT conversation is with one of the year's finalists. The judges had this to say. Twenty years from now, students looking for a definitive account to the troubled aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq will no less turn to George Packer's deep reporting, 20,000-word piece in "The New Yorker." Lucky for us we don't have to wait 20 years. Nice to see you.

GEORGE PACKER, "NEW YORKER": Nice to be here.

BROWN: It seems to me, pretty clear that Americans are less optimistic about the state of play in Iraq, than they were a year ago. Do you think Iraqis are less optimistic about the state of play than they were a year ago?

PACKER: Polls show there's a kind of constant level of optimism about the medium to long-term future among Iraqis. And I think that's because people cannot afford to give up on their own future. The polls about what Americans think show that Americans have less and less confidence that the war in Iraq are going the right direction. I think Iraqis are worried that Americans are going to lose faith in this before they do.

BROWN: Let me come back to that. Is there -- are there reasons why, beyond -- beyond blind faith or you can't afford to think otherwise. Are there substantive reasons why Iraqis looking at the situation today would say, you know what, it ain't perfect. And it's not even good. But it's better.

PACKER: I think the memory of Saddam is a strong incentive to push in the direction they've been going for the last two years. They have not forgotten what it was like to live for 35 years under that tyranny.

BROWN: Sunnis?

PACKER: Sunnis did not love Saddam. Sunnis have begun to embrace, sort of the idea of Saddam as a nationalist figure, against the occupation. And against sort of Shiite surge that's happened in the last two years. But Saddam is not widely loved around Iraq, by more than the sort of hard core who made up his security and intelligence forces.

BROWN: Do you think it's possible to take the disparate groups in Iraq, the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shias and meld them into a governing body that takes care of each other, not just themselves?

PACEKER: That is the essential question. I was talking to an Iraqi friend today who said, George, there is no Iraqi government to which Iraqis are giving their loyalty. They are giving loyalty to their militia. To their ayatollah. To their party. But not to the country. But one of the legacies of Saddam is he really did destroy the idea of citizenship in Iraq. Barham Sala (pg), the deputy prime minister said to me there is no idea of being an Iraqi in this country. That's something we have to build. And that is really one of the hardest things to create out of the chaos of the last couple of years.

BROWN: Do you see any signs that the people who need to get that, get that? And I'm not sure how you'd begin that process. But that process is actually happening?

PACKER: Well, here's one slightly-hopeful sign. And I am not by any means sanguine about this. But Sunnis have begun to realize that it was a mistake to sit out the elections of January, whether they did it out of fear or out of boycott, Sunnis voted in very small numbers. And quietly, they began to admit pretty quickly after the elections that it was a mistake. And more and more of them seem to be saying that we need to be sure to be able to participate in the next round of elections. And so, let's start organizing now. To me, that's the idea of being part of a larger body than just the Sunnis.

BROWN: The other side of that is that Shias then have to say that's a good thing.

PACKER: And I don't know whether host the Shia do feel that way. The government has been more sectarian than I would like to have seen. On the other hand, they have opened up the constitutional committee that's preparing the document that will have to be ratified by the country to more and more Sunnis, who didn't actually have a place at the table because they didn't participate in the election. That, too, is a sign that there are Shia that need to recognize they can't do this as a one-sided process.

BROWN: Just a quick, final question -- do you think a year from now, when we sit down to talk about this, things will be better in Iraq for Iraqis than they are today?

PACKER: I think that depends on whether Americans are willing to stick with it. And that's my biggest worry. That both the public and the government in response to the public are going to decide, it's good enough. We can leave, when, in fact, it really isn't good enough. The Iraqis will deserve better.

BROWN: Good to see you again.

PACKER: Thanks for having me.

BROWN: Thank you. Still to come tonight in our progress report on Iraq -- American soldiers in the country, seen through the lens of a photographer who committed the ultimate journalistic sin. He got emotionally involved. We'll take a break. This is a special edition of NEWSNIGHT.

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ERICA HILL, CNNHN ANCHOR: Good evening, again, everyone. I'm Erica Hill in New York. We'll go back to NEWSNIGHT in a moment. But first, let's get caught up in the headlines.Starting with a second day of air strikes in Gaza. Israeli forces targeting Hamas weapons laboratories in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Air strikes, retaliation for Palestinian rocket attacks, left seven militants dead.On now to San Francisco where the men in the middle of the steroid and sports scandal entered guilty pleas. Victor Conte, founder of BALCO, coughing to conspiracy and money laundering charges while Greg Anderson, personal trainer to Barry Bonds, pleading guilty to the same. And company vice president James Valenti pleading guilty conspiracy to distribute steroids.Finally, Pottermania is here. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" going on sale tonight in London and around the world. Our prediction -- it will do okay.Well, fewer than half a dozen people lived through the Washington, DC crash of Air Florida flight 90 in 1982. As part of CNN's anniversary series, then and now, we look back at one survivor. Kelly Duncan Moore and where she is today.

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BROWN (voice-over): Air Florida flight 90 took off from Washington's National Airport on the 13th of January, 1982, bound for Tampa, Florida. But it only made it as far as the 14th Street Bridge. Kelly Duncan Moore was a 22-year-old flight attendant, plucked from the frigid waters of the Potomac, one of just five survivors of the crash. She doesn't remember much. Only coming to the surface and clinging to the wreckage of the plane.

KELLY DUNCAN MOORE, CRASH SURVIVOR: The most significant memories of the crash I have are the moments before the crash. I remember looking and seeing a man turn around and look at me. And he looked afraid.

BROWN: Moore is now in her 40s. And says the experiences, as you would imagine, changed her life, and her priorities.

MOORE: I started praying. I never prayed. I started asking God, why am I here and what am I supposed to do now.

BROWN: She has since devoted her life to God and to children, working as a teacher and a youth minister at a Baptist church in Miami. She's married with three teenage children.

MOORE: I feel like every day has been a blessing. I have a wonderful life. It sounds crazy to say it. But that accident changed my life for good. God used a bad thing to turn my life around.

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BROWN: As a rule, news photographers try to remain dispassionate about their subjects. But as we know, sometimes rules get broken. And what photographer Max Becherer learned, that one of the marines he photographed died, he was moved to tell the rest of the story.

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MAX BECHERER, "TIME" PHOTOGRAPHER: In October of 2004, I was in Iraq, with "Time" magazine. And we were embedded in Ramadi. And from Ramadi, the 1st marine division asked us to come to Falluja. From then I spent about two months in Fallula, to do patrols outside Falluja:There was one squad I hung out with for a bit. The squad leader was Corporal Eric Shelby and he had two team leaders in the squad. Lance Corporal Gregory Rund and Lance Corporal Jeremy Miller.Gregory Rund is a kind of person you would meet. In the States, he would be like a class clown. Three or four days into the battle of Falluja, he's leading his team.I guess we fought for about a week. That was the end of November. I thought, well, I might go home for Christmas. A few days later, December 11th. And I was in Times Square. And I'd heard that someone had been killed in Falluja from the unit. And one of the mothers had e-mailed me and told me it was Greg. I was trying to take in that I was not going to see him again.And there's a news ticker that says, one marine killed Anbar province. And I realized how cold those words are. You could read that and not know anything about that. One person killed. No, that's - Lance Corporal Gregory Rund was killed, in Anbar Province in Falluja. And when I showed up at the funeral, I wasn't sure I was going to see in there - how welcome I would be. And I stepped in and Jane, his mother, saw me. And she just stepped right up to me and gave the most -- just kind of soul-shaking hug. I was the last person at the funeral that had seen him alive. So, that meant that much more to her.When you're in Iraq, you see a lot of violence. And you can't deal with it all right at that moment. You take it in. When you go home, at some point, you try to deal with it. And so, when I went back to the unit, I asked Jeremy if I could go back home with them, to tell their story. Jeremy Miller had still had a few belongings of Greg's. And they had spoke previously about Falluja that there was a few belongings. And if something happens to me, take these.Jane (ph) hasd said she was going to meet them at Camp Pendleton when we got home. We got home pretty much the middle of the night. And immediately, Bobby and Debbi (ph), Jeremy's parents came to greet him. And his girlfriend Celeste was there and they were hugging him, holding him. As he was doing this, he was looking in the back of the room, and Mark and Jane, Greg's parents were standing there. A strange, kind of awkward scenario. Because it could be either one's family that was switched in their place in life.Then, Jane came up, Jeremy greeted them. You could tell he didn't know what to think exactly. You come out of the scenario and just experience it. And maybe you're prepared for this to happen. But I don't think they're prepared to come home and deal with it. I don't think they're prepared to come home and look at the mother of their best friend that, you know, was left behind there.Jeremy was able to come home. And while he'd been away, Celeste was making intense plans for a wedding. And so, he went back to Deer Park, Texas. They had a very nice wedding ceremony set up outside. Just outside his hometown. On April 30th, marines held a memorial for the fallen. And Greg was one of those.Members of his unit were on leave. But on Jane Rund's request, they came to attend. It was an opportunity for marines to come and show their compassion for them. And hopefully share some stories.The marines came early for this event. And they visited Jane and Greg's family. They went together and they visited Greg's gravesite. A lot of marines kicked around and silently looked at the gravesite of their friend. And I think at that point, you just realize that they're trying to grapple with the fact that it would be them. Jeremy talked about, he hates going to these things because it brings it up again and again. And you want to get it out of your mind. You want to continue. And when that ceremony was over, I think it was it for him. He saw the gravesite. And he had a place to put Greg's memory.

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BROWN: We'll have closing thoughts in just a moment.

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The capacity of Ms. von Zwieten to hate extends to ethnicity beside Jew.

So to my sisters and brothers of the Muslim faith I make this entry.

I just can't believe Aaron Brown lends legitimacy to this type of journalism. Biased to say the least. I shake my head in astounding reality everytime I hear it.

As the scandal of the current Oval Office plays out with aids of all Executive Branch Members having access to sensitive information while using it for political pundancy, this trash was displayed Friday night. I don't know what purpose it serves other than propaganda because it was all edited and taylored as an infomercial to promote the war.

If this country cannot count on an honest and exempliary press then we need not be involved in any aggression such as this anywhere.

In Vietnam, the truth regarding our troops there ended it because we could count on the press to bring the sad reality of their deaths as well the sad reality of our losing the war back home.

In the reporting of Iraq, the news media, especially Cable Network News which acts as political pundits at any cost to our society through bad government, there is nothing trustworthy anymore as they seek to entertain imaginations rather than chronicalize the fact that Iraqis still cling to their own social structure through religion and little if any value a centralized government. What Iraqis do value is for their lives to proceed without death being upon them every minute of every day. That hasn't happened there yet. And as long as this type of irresponsible journalism continues in the USA I believe the conflict in Iraq will continue without an end.

The 'idea' of an Iraq Progress Report. By whom's definition is there progress in Iraq?

The first thing one has to realize is that this program was sponsored at the Ten O'Clock hour by Big Oil and Big Beef with minimally one oil commercial every fifteen minutes.

Additionally the only 'introduction' to religion minding you this is about Iraq was Baptist in a 'Then and Now Segment' regarding Kelly Duncan Moore a crash survivor from Air Florida Crash in 1982 who realized she was spared death to live a life as God's servant. The segment neglected to ask Ms. Moore whether or not she ever flew again.

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There was one statement that screamed sanity the entire 59 minutes by a well spoken Iraqi man (Did you get that? A WELL SPOKEN Iraq man that spoke in English so I could understand. I am confident the number of Iraqis who speak English is rare. REMEMBER THAT AS i WEED THROUGH THIS MESS.) and that was stated : "Those that returned our liberties need to leave now."

Those words were then trampled by John King who went on NOT about the priorities of the Iraqis but about the Bush White House.

There was also the most ridiculous statement by an Iraqi man who spoke in English but not clearly more with an accent (Mind you this is a country that has never known democracy, has no reference point to democracy. So to ask Iraqis how things are going in relation to democracy is a hideous question.) and he stated (I paraphrase.) : 'Democracy is always worse in the beginning because there is so much freedom people cannot provide lawful behavior. There is no real good transition to democracy no matter how it comes.'

I refer to countries like Brazil that transitioned just fine without killing their own citizens in civil war.

Then there is the most hideous military statement from a very tall GI carrying a very big gun speaking to an Iraqi man nearly a full one third less in height. The soldier is putting his hand on this Iraqi man's shoulder as if to not let him leave and states in perfect English without any accent, "Your government wanted up to come into Fallujah to kill the terrorist but you also have to realize your government has several hundred million dollars to help you rebuild."

CNN called that segment 'The Battle FOR (not OF) Fallujah.' Fallujah has always been where the Sunnis lived. Now, thanks to the USA military Fallujah lays in rubbles except for people starting to rebuild grateful they still can go back to rebuild their destroyed city.

That was another incredible statement by an Iraqi woman who was forced to be a refugee due to the 'flattening' of Fallujah. She returned to her home and celebrated with Henna on her hands at the joy of returning home. The entire segment came across as a return to her home after a refugee status due to Saddam. It wasn't. It was a return to her home as she fled to refugee status from the invading Americans.

Additionally, his segment was discernable because an interpretation of the Iraqi language. We don't know what the woman was actually saying except she did have henna on her hands. Women who wear henna on their skin are usually getting married. It is a common practice even in places like Inida. It is sort of like getting a hair style before you walk down the aisle.
All during the early minutes of this 59 minute long Propaganda News Piece I looked at the photography of Iraq. Everything is in rumble. It looked like Beirut did. That rubble is due to the USA invasion. That rubble did not exist before the war. These were communities with life as reasonable as it comes under scrutiny of The United Nations Security Council Inspectors.
The entire concept of this news item was completely bizarre. The CNN network was 'creating' a version of Iraq without Iraqi consent. Mind you, I said CONSENT, and not participation. There were Iraqis that could speak English and contributed to the program but the CONTEXT of the show was without their consent.

To address 'consent' of the Iraqi people to this news item by CNN as a Progress Report; it was plainly clear with every Iraqi person that spoke they were mad as hell. There is no getting around it. Every person who spoke in English never had a good word to say about the USA. They were all profoundly upset with Bush and his huge statements about making Iraq the best country in the Middle East. A country to envy, an example of Democracy.

They were empty words to these people who live in a moment to moment fear for their own lives.

To prove the USE of these words as spoken by the Iraqis then taken out of context by CNN was the word frustration. In the early minutes of the program the word was used by Iraqis to exhibit their feelings about their lives since occupation by the USA. There was the overriding question by most of how long this insanity would go on and when reflecting on Don Rumsfeld replies to same question he could not answer that question.

So, too frustration.

At the top of the program that was a given by the Iraqi people. By 10:21 PM Aaron Brown stated, "To the Iraqis frustration is a permanent state of mind. PERHAPS."

PERHAPS. That single word statement is a departure from any statement by any Iraqi. A complete departure from their intended meaning. THAT is what I call TAKING CONSENT away from their participation. Removing the meaning of their statements to a different context. Everything from 10:21 PM on was bogus and had no true meaning. To say it was unethical is to realize as a result of that act people will die as the truth of Iraq eludes this country through manufacturered images as created here.

What followed were 'elements' of Iraqi life that takes place in secured areas of the city. A "Horse Club" that found it's way to survival past the invasion even though all the original RACE HORSES were gone after the invasion. Another element of Iraqi society is a Recreational Club where there is a swimming pool and people come everyday to escape their reality otherwise. There are film makers who have managed to seclude themselves in a small apartment that is a little bit of heaven to enjoy their friendship and inspire each other to makes films. One film maker made a stark reality film of the dangers journalists face in Baghdad. There were scenes of a wedding in Iraq. Very fancy wedding.

Elements of Iraq but NOT THE NORM of Iraq. These elements were among people who could afford them. They were not the general society.

When men at all these 'element' events were engaged in conversation regarding the 'state of play' in Iraq the response was always the same. They found no one oppressed them from doing what they wanted but they all lived in fear day to day, moment to moment for their lives. The man who gave his daughter the wedding was a former Captain in Saddam's Army, therefore logically a Sunni, and he was furious complaining how none of his children regardless of age were safe enough to attend their schools without fear of death.

There were pictures of Iraqi children in refurbished school rooms with 90 children per teacher but there was no guarantee to their safety and only yesterday children were killed when lured away with candy. So, hence this Sunni father was absolutely correct, there was no safe place for his children to attend school.

Every Iraqi had the same reply to the occupation. They hated it.

These 'elements' of life as shown by CNN to be huge events of Iraqi society never before seen to the American public and a cause to rejoice was simply life in the face of moment to moment threats and real threats of death. I mean won't you? If life was as tenuous here as there to the degree it is in Iraq wouldn't you live life to the fullest knowing it might be your last moment?

You darn right you would.

I want to regress to the beginning of this Racist Work to realize the degree the poor caucasian executives at CNN had to settle in order to get those pictures to exploit.

Right in the opening minutes of the program were the words of Aaron Brown regarding the dangers that awaited outside the hotels of Western Journalists. He stated due to those dangers the Western Journalists could never go to the city of Baghdad to get the film they were looking for, so in order to do this piece they had to call on Iraqi journalists to find events worthy of the theme they were perscribed and then do all the filming and interviewing.
Got that?

The Iraqi journalists were NOT the first choice of the CNN executives.

That level of racism came from the mouth of Aaron Brown in the very first minutes of that 59 minutes program. Scripted perhaps, but, spoken just the same by someone I had admired until recent. I cannot in good conscience consent to this degree of hatred as he does.

Now, I ask you, am I going to consider any of this context seriously in a way that is unbiased?
I kept an open mind but as the minutes rolled out it was all too obvious the level of hatred of the Iraqi people for not being good and 'ordered up' subjects. The word 'frustration' again came to mind after the 10:21 PM moment but more of the 'CNN Editors.'

At 10:28 PM after the second oil company commercial is when the programming turned to politics and Bush's face was everywhere discussing the initiative of these huge events such as the Janaury vote. The point was made by an Iraqi official that although the HUGE events noted as success by Bush were "Power Moments" but were also moment that were wrong to recognize as a statement of progress.

Can anyone disagree with that?

The reality of this piece of bigotry ended with that segment at abotu the 10:33 PM moment. From then on it was propaganda to justify the occupation of our military.

The justification came by scapegoating the Sunnis. It was stated the Sunnis were marginalized with mistrust and fear as the motivating force. What this message did not relay was the fact the mistrust and fear did not come from the other ethnicities so much as the American Coalition. If one recalls the Sunnis were at roll call in the new centralized government right up to the point where Fallujah was leveled by the USA military.

I remind at this point Fallujah was a High Value Target 'of this man's Army' because all of the Islamic World was worshipping and praying for the people in Fallujah to stand strong and resist the occupation. So, to realize there was no standing down by the USA to make a point to not only the Iraqis but the entire Islamic world that George Walker Bush was boss!!!

Now, to say the Shi'ites and Kurds were the problem of the Sunnis estrangement is projecting blame on the wrong entity and creating an argument for an understanding of a guaranteed civil war between all these ethnicities and the USA must stay to see all this through.
Right, Sure.

Of course there is no nobler cause except perhaps protecting the USA interest of Bechtel and Halliburton.

The entire REMAINS of the program was waving the American Flag with talking heads expounding the virtue of all we, the Americans have done and then there was a film tribute to a dead American soldier to round out the patriotic nature we all need to properly put this into humble perspective and continue to worship Bush for his valor on all fronts in Iraq.
The 59 minutes ended with three miinutes of commercials including a final Kerr McGee oil commercial.

To say I wasn't impressed is an understatement. "I am however hoping the film makers find a way to get their films reproduced to make it in time to Michael Moores Film Festival this month."

The Religious Bigotry of CNN's NewsNight "Morning Papers" as well as overt Racism

The Guardian
The Examiner

Christian Science Monitor - twice noted with emphasized voice

International Herald Tribune
San Antonio Tribune
Rocky Mountain News
Oregonian
Chicago Sun Times

The programming of NewsNight is sadly all caucasian with a token segment by Jason Carrol who is the only Black journalist. Jason appears rarely on this program and rarely is there a minority face.

There was no segment Honoring the American Dead in Iraq.

The time trials will follow when I feel like it. Basically, the entire program with the exception of occassional interaction of journalists abroad for about 60 seconds or so and an interview that served the purpose of elevated Neocon values over all else everything is on tape and controlled with a scrubbed 'WHITIE' message.

The breakdown is averaging TAPED 45 minutes. With approximately 20 minutes of commercials including obnoxious commercials about Big Oil and Big Beef. It's a hideous program.

On the personal side:

I don't know the truth regarding Aaron Brown but he was leading me to believe he is a man with divided loyalities in regard to Judaism and Christianity. Part of that allows him a handsome paycheck and the other aspect is that his daughter from some reason has affiliation other than Hebrew. Fine, I don't hate kids regardless their persuasions on any issue. But, that is no reason for overt disrespect of the Jewish Faith as it is exhibited with this news hour ! End of Discussion. If Aaron Brown cannot conduct himself anyway except indulging his personal life on the aire then I think far less of him today.

There was a time I considered he and David Bohrman heros to me.

It isn't as though I don't have family that are Christian. My mother's entire family which currently number close to one hundred between her siblings, their children, the in-laws and their children are Irish Roman Catholic. We get together once a year for a golf outing called The Barrett Open. My father is a Russian that came through Poland. He has his sister and a niece and nephew. He is a nice man.

There is no such thing as divided loyalities in any personal situation, either one practices one religion or not and there is absolutely no reason what so ever at all for bigoted segments and racist tendancies.

It's inexcusable. People need to grow up.

The Religious Bigotry of CNN's NewsNight "Morning Papers"

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The Sun
The Guardian
Cincinnati Enquirer
The Dallas morning News
The Detroit News

Christian Science Monitor

Chicago Sun Times

More of "Ms. Bigot's" Childish CONTROL ISSUES !!! BORING !!

The Subliminal Message is no longer.

Ms. Bigot von Zwieten likes her subliminal messages to the public.

Her favorite is the picture of a soldier wearing a gas mask for the "Watch FREE Video."

It appears at the end of one or both of the 'News Break' usually hosted by Headline News' Erica Hill. What makes this ad so curious to it's intent is the fact there are other people in the picture along with a lone soldier. The soldier is the one with the gas mask while everyone else is exposed to whatever the soldier anticipates he needs protection from. Does he intend to 'gas' someone? Perhaps as he is the only one protected. It's a very bad advertisement. Lots of moral and ethical issues. Isn't this news agency interested in winning perhaps a 'Clio' award?

The Religious Bigotry of CNN NewsNight's Morning Papers

Aaron Brown did not do his pre-program ad, he did write his own e-mail.

International Herald Tribune

The Chrisitan Science Monitor They are touble makers. The article pointed to was one that states the USA government is exhibiting obsession over this shuttle launch. That is a lie. They left the shuttle out in a hurricane where there was tornado watches. That negligence to detail increased the percentage of error and danger for the astronauts. The people at this second class news rag are not qualified to 'make judgements' regarding issues of sound science. They are nothing but troublemakers and always have been. They don't value human life over their politics. The fact of the matter is both shuttle tragedies happened under Republican Presidents, Reagan and Bush. It demonstrates clearly along with this negligence of this shuttle launch why these accidents happen. These presidents demand not absolute and obsessive safety, they demand cutting corners for the sake of efficiency. The shuttle should have been returned to it's hanger until it was completely safe to bring it out for a launch.

El Pais
The Washington news
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Detroit News

NewsNight has a Honor Soldier Segment tonight listing five soldiers all killed in action; Moski, age 24, Oliver, age 26; Gresham, age 23; Steffeny, age 28 and Brewer, age 22.

The Time Breakdown is for a show with a total of 57 minutes.

Aaron 15 minutes, 7 minutes were live. Of that 7 minutes 4 were wasted on a propaganda segment of Anti-American sentiment regarding the ways to compromise citizens desire for more security while all the guest, Mr. James Carafano could propose was economic benefits of reducing security due to the fact most users of public transportation are 98% average folks. Right. But, what Aaron was not allowed to point out to balance this extremism was the fact all our measures are to stop that 2% of killers.

Others :: 25 minutes with a very qualified segment by Nic Robertson on how Islamic groups in London feel so threatened they don't feel they can afford recognition of any person viewed as Islamic being a terrorist, including persons like Osama bin Laden. Nic is very qualified to speak to these issues. I have never known him or Christiana Amanpour to be propagandists. Thank you, Nic. Appreciate the insight.

Commercials :: 17 minutes of which two were for Big Oil.

The entire set of journalists delivering commentary were caucasian as were all the commericals.

At this point having observed this program from it's inception and realizing CNN and in particularly NewsNight has undergone monsterous changes it leads me to speculate as to why. I take license to speculate.

Ted Turner has always been an influence in the news business and until this change in administration has always been cutting edge. Like the USA he has lost his edge and so has his news station.

I would like to speculate further about Jane Fonda and her born again Christian dogma influencing 'the culture' of CNN. I find it odd that this very successful Jewish Girl who found a very successful media business man as a spouse would write a book revealing all enough to cause a former spouse to repent in a way that brought Ms. Bigot von Zwieten to CNN as knowing more than any other Christian guru on the planet. It would be a shame if somehow Ms. Bigot attached herself to powerful people to influence the WAY the nation views the news to promote lies and an undermining culture, i.e. Rove and the FCC, to the USA promising to catapult CNN to the top of the charts nationwide as a reformist Christian Jewish network.

The continued frenzy of Ms. Bigot.

The most hopeful insight of this program which was significant came from Robert Pape who had studied terrorist attacks in Arabia.

For over five years prior to 9/11, Mr. Pape examined not the attacks of suicide bombers but the bombers themselves. Quite contrary to the focus of this program, namely 'Radical Islamic Terrorists' the truth of the suicide bomber phenomina is that these men are not fundamentalists. They are however Sunni Muslims who really mind the precense of the USA on the Arabian Peninsula and other foreign countries where Muslims are majority.

What Mr. Pape pointed to was the fact there was once a program whereby the USA did not maintain a military presence in Islam to obtain oil. It was a grossly successful program.

WHAT ARE WE ALLOWING THIS ADMINISTRATION PERMISSION TO DO TO US by allowing our miliary to assault Arabia? What are we doing to our energy supply? Where are the alternatives?

Ms. Bigot didn't like the statement and quickly shifted to another guest by the name of Daniel Goure who stated the only way to defeat terrorists was to deprive their financial network and to close the USA borders.

If CNN's NewsNight is to believe their own guests then they need to advocate for a different focus in the USA and the withdrawal from Iraq.

That should not be difficult as today there was movement by the Iraqi Defense Minister approaching Iran for assistant in training it's military and police. The Iranians seem eager to help. That removes the USA to other areas and out of Islam.

The only open issues with this new alliance remains the peace with Islam and Israel.

More of Ms. Bigot's Home Grown Terror

If there is a word to describe NewsNight it is 'frenzied' which actually might be the incompetent mind of Ms. Bigot.

So far in a two hour program we have speculated about 'Radical Islamic Terrorists.' When every Islamic community on the globe has called for a joined effort to stop this terrible plight on their religion. There is no compassion for the fact there maybe terrorists that use Islam as an excuse for recruitment and are not devout.

There was also exploitation of the 'verbal' presentation of Public Transportation instilling feelings of fear rather than reassurance. We have a 'color coded' (like it or not) system to INSURE our SECURITY. That is not so much a terror alert as it is a security increase to reassure the public of better measures to their safety.

This Executive Producer is of this program is not interested in a discussion regarding the safety this nation enjoys because of the measures of it's mayors but more the 'uncertainty' guaranteed by the incompetency of the federal government.

The second half hour is more interesting. Not allowed to understand where the problem is evidently, noted a quick step to the right.

Ms. Bigot Strikes Again in her own Home Grown Method of Terrorism.

The Pre-Program Promotion for NewsNight continues to be denied the man who stood on the roof of the Time Warner Building during the September 11th attacks. We are all being deprived of expertise that serves us best by a Bigot who wants to control a political lie rather than the truth.

The Truth is Ms. von Zwieten is a racist and religous bigot.

The Religious Bigotry and Racism of CNN's NewsNight

The Racism and Religious Bigotry of this Executive Producer Continues:

Aaron wrote his own e-mail.

The Pre-program commercial was by video tape while the other programs like Larry King was live.

The program was completely caucasian in presentation and shorter in duration by 5 minutes on my clock.

There were no minority presentations while Beth Nissan did a presentation on Africa it was uninspired and statistical evoking no emotional attachment to the subject with still figures which was the billing for the segment. Usually there is a narrative heart felt by the photographer that does the stills.

There was no Honor to the Dead American Soldier Segment but a 'slight of hand' that a taped reporting of the recent killed Navy Seal was billed to substitute for the ACTUAL mention of other soldiers names and deaths. Not hardly and certainly not to any family or friend that might be anticipating same but only left to disappointment.

Aaron 15 minutes - 10 minutes live
Others 22 minutes
Commercials 15 minutes with two Big Oil included.

The "Morning Papers" segment exhibited it's ususal Religious Bigotry


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Daily News


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Chicago Sun Times

The Racism of Sharon von Zwieten Continues...

... with the live return of Aaron Brown for the entire program, countering the claim he is oppressed from the previous John King broadcast on Friday.

Aaron 35 minutes

Others 18 minutes which included a taped segment whereby Jason Carroll was heard but not seen. The entire show was completely caucasian with the other visual presence of the lovely Sophia Choy for the news segments. Aaron was engaged with her and courteous. She was not shunned in anyway as a minority.

There was no Honor Segment to the American Dead soldiers.

Commercials 17 minutes featuring three Big Oil Commercials.

Better but not exactly the type of enthusiasm for fairness one would expect from a decent program.