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This post in the Mudville Gazette is about how some news sources seem to be denying the fairly obvious trend of decreasing attacks and fatalities in Iraq. (They're also decreasing the headlines from Iraq as well.)

I don't like to believe that the media is so opposied to the war that they can't bring themselves to say anything positive, but it did remind me of what I heard on the local NPR station over the weekend. They were reporting on a (rather small, as far as I could tell) protest against the war, interviewing the marchers, and giving glowing profiles on others who want our troops out. (They didn't put it that way--they said they were peace activists, though there's no reason to believe that pulling our soldiers out will lead to peace.)

Anyway, one of the reporters started talking about the surge, and here's what she said--that immediately after it started, violence went up. That was it. Nothing about how it went up because we engaged the enemy, and then it went down and has continued to go down, below pre-surge levels.

It's said generals always fight the last war. Well, in this case, it sounds like the media has settled on a narrative for this war and it can't accept a new one.