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I heard of no car bomb or other suicide attacks from Iraq yesterday. It seems like the days when there are no major attacks the MSM is very silent about what's happening, but let an attack occur it treated like an everyday occurrence.

The administration must make it a point to talk EVERY DAY about what's happened in the previous 24 hours, the number of attacks, ied's, bodies found, etc. Attendance at the briefing should be mandatory so that the various news agencies who fail to report the increasingly calm days throughout Iraq have no way to avoid admitting that they knew, and failed to talk about, the increasing number of relatively calm days.

I swear it's like no one on our side ever gives any thought to how the war is being reported, and therefore perceived. Like so much of the Dubya administration the war effort is allowed to be attacked and lied about and spun by every Tom, Dick and Harry with absolutely no response from anyone of authority.

My guess is they expect success and figure when it happens it will speak for itself. That is just not the case. They need to be talking about that success all the time, telling us what it will look like, diminishing violence from the insurgents and increasingly fewer sightings of evidence of it.