At AP nothing changes

AP published a story about what's going on in Samarra and Fallujah. As usual, they slant the story.

The military says 125 rebels have been killed and 88 captured since the operation started early Friday.

But residents say many civilians are among the dead, and AP reporters have seen wounded women and children at hospitals. There was mounting anger over the casualties.

"The people who were hurt most are normal people who have nothing to do with anything," said Abdel Latif Hadi, 45.

Of course! Until those big, bad, mean military came by, everything was all hearts and roses in Samarra. Then they come along and slaughter poor, innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the troubles there.

And I've got a bridge I'll see you. Note to AP, et. al. - Nobody believes this tripe any more. It just makes you look silly.

Overnight strikes in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, were the latest in weeks of attacks aimed at militant groups, particularly the network of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Followers of the Jordanian militant have claimed responsibility for a string of deadly bombings, kidnappings and other attacks across the country.

The city hospital said two people were killed and 12 wounded in air strikes on four neighborhoods. Two more people, a man and his wife, were killed and two wounded when a tank fired on a house in the city's southern suburbs, Dr. Rafe al-Issawi said.

The U.S. military, which regularly accuses the hospital of inflating casualty figures, confirmed only one strike aimed at a building where insurgents were moving weapons.

Notice how it's the "U.S. military" that "regulary accuses the hospital"? You see, we can trust those fellows in Fallujah to be telling the truth, but the U.S. military? Why everyone knows they exaggerate and prevaricate routinely, so we can't take anything they say at false value.

It's all rather predictable - like Kerry "winning" the debate. (Of course he did! The press says so!)