More good news in Petraeus interview

Dennis Byrne takes a second look at Jim Lehrer's interview with General Petraeus and finds this:

Iraqi coalition forces have shut down a major network of car bombers that was responsible for the deaths of at least 650 civilians.

Its eradication, along with the elimination of another terrorist network and three car-bomb factories, is the latest positive news coming out of Iraq.

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces there, also reported the recent capture of "more than the usual numbers" of weapons caches. One consisted of more than 120 improvised explosive devices, some of which were the "particularly lethal" anti-armor munitions being used against U.S. troops.

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So, where's the bad news in the story? Just as so many stories don't report the good news, I'm leaving out the bad. It seems only fair when The New York Times, for example, reported Petraeus' comments deep in a story headlined: "Bush Acknowledges Americans Weary of Iraq War." And only briefly, missing the positive comments. In the news business, what's "normal" isn't usually reported because, by definition, it isn't news. Unless it is in a country that is supposedly in ever-deepening chaos. Then the rare appearance of normality, indeed, should be news. But the appearance of normality in Iraq doesn't get reported. Maybe that means that the media consider the increasing normality in Iraq the norm. Or maybe it's just bad reporting.

It is worth reading in full because I skipped over more good news on the way to his great closing paragraph. It is going to take a lot more of these kind of stories to get things turned around on the home front where the Democrats are eager to give the enemy his best chance of victory.