NYT writer conducts her own poll: Iraqis liked Petraeus report. (Based on a sample of 20 Iraqis)

[antiimperialist]

This article is so mediocre that it's funny.
Read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/world/middleeast/12reax.html

[babylonsister]

1. What a bunch of bullshit:

U.S. support for Maliki dismays Iraqi opposition
By Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers


BAGHDAD — Opposition Iraqi politicians of all stripes expressed dismay Tuesday that the top two American officials based here offered little criticism of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki during their two days of testimony before Congress, even though Maliki's government has made little progress toward national reconciliation.

Some called the testimony by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Army Gen. David Petraeus another U.S. blunder and wondered why the two didn't offer the same criticism of Maliki's government in Washington that they'd made recently in Iraq.

"They wrote something that sticks to the U.S. administration policy," independent Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman said. "The surge has worked, but it is all temporary . . . without some sort of reconciliation. We don't see any reconciliation."

Bassem Sharif al Hajeemi, a member of parliament from Fadhila, a Shiite Muslim party that left the government in March, said he was disappointed that Crocker and Petraeus continued to support the Maliki government.

"There are many things that the U.S. has done wrong in Iraq, and one or two years later they say, 'That was a mistake,' " Hajeemi said. "This is another wrong."

more...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/19631.html

[antiimperialist]

2. the NYT doesn't even post her email address

and I don't blame them.
The BBC/ABC poll (a real poll) found that 70% of Iraqis think the surge has failed.
Could someone find me her email address? This lady should find another job; journalism is the last thing she should be practicing.

[Benhurst]

5. On the contrary, she's found the right job all right. Increasingly, American "journalism" is akin

to old-style Soviet "journalism." Now if she can just work on her "perky," she might have a chance some day of filling Katie Couric's shoes.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Christ, that was pathetic. Dollars to donuts the author cobbled it together from local papers.

That was horrible.

[Joe Bacon]

4. It's standard operating procedure at THE SCREW YORK TIMES®

How Paul Krugman gets published in that fascist propaganda rag is a miracle on the magnitude of the loaves and fishes!