Good News Please – UPDATE!

On Friday, I asked, “Why is it that the MSM only discusses the negative stories?” and “come on how about a “Little Good News” today; in my post “Good News Please”. While shame on me; Times Online (UK) had a good story about the American miltiary action in Fallujah and how the residents themselves were being terrorised. Who would have thought I should of looked for my “Good News” where we are told by the New York Times and other MSM American and the action in Iraq is despised! How should we take this? Either Bush, American, and the action in Iraq are not so despised in the UK or the UK actually has honest reporting delivering both sides of the issues; I think the New York Times and others could learn something here. Some excerpts:

A previously unknown rebel group last week threatened to behead Dr Allawi's cousin, his wife and their heavily pregnant daughter-in-law unless the assault on Fallujah was stopped.

Such is the fear that the heavily armed militants held over Fallujah that many of the residents who emerged from the ruins welcomed the US marines, despite the massive destruction their firepower had inflicted on their city.

A man in his sixties, half-naked and his underwear stained with blood from shrapnel wounds from a US munition, cursed the insurgents as he greeted the advancing marines on Saturday night.

"I wish the Americans had come here the very first day and not waited eight months," he said, trembling. Nearby, a mosque courtyard had been used as a weapons store by the militants.

Another elderly man, who did not want his name used for fear the rebels would one day return and restore their draconian rule, said he was detained by the militants last Tuesday and held for four days before being freed. He described how he had then sought refuge in a friend's house where they had huddled together clutching Korans in silent prayer for their lives as the massive US bombardment put the insurgents to flight.

"It was horrible," he told an AFP reporter."We suffered from the bombings. Innocent people died or were wounded by the bombings.

"But we were happy you did what you did because Fallujah had been suffocated by the Mujahidin. Anyone considered suspicious would be slaughtered. We would see unknown corpses around the city all the time." (Read more)

To be fair the Time Online does question some statements and actions by US Military and the acting Iraqi government; however, the fact that they can question some actions and statements and tell positive accounts of the US Military action demonstrates something the American MSM hasn’t; non bias!