snjoseph's Journal: Very Friendly Fire

AP: Rumsfeld Gets Friendly Questions in Iraq

Indeed he does.

"How do we win the war in the media?" asked one soldier in Mosul. Another soldier in Tikrit wondered why there is not more coverage of reconstruction efforts going on in the country.

So the best question a soldier in Mosul could come up with was how do we win the media war? Yeah, alright. I think the media might be more willing to show pictures of new playgrounds if two dozen people aren't getting blown up on the same day.

In any event, I'm glad we're winning the War on Message Indiscipline.