Comments on: Measuring The Road Ahead

[oakishpines]

'' ... a little bit of debris like a hole filled shell, sortof an airbaggish exoskeleton, with pogo stick legs ... bounding ten to sixty feet at a time and bouncing off everything ... and coughing out living flowers like confetti, i think as some sign of disrespect and fear ... ''

'' ...
space view: 16 clicks of 4800 per page
arial view: 300 clicks of 300 per page
flight view: 4800 clicks of 16 per page
hike view: 90,000 clicks of 1 per page
... ''

'' ... thou shalt kill thou shalt kill thou shalt mug and rape and kill there''s no other way but get sick soon tax the world first strike on the trail you are gone die die die thou shalt kill thou shalt kill thou share death tax dress strip dare drug shock awe and make them pay for lunch thou shalt kill thou shalt kill ... ''

'' ... they only invented dare and shock and awe cause they knew war rapes and kills little girls and they wanted to frame the u.s. for a crime they actually comitted ... ''

'' ... embarassed, why would i be embarrassed, the army''s running around naked weaving baskets, it''s not like they''re daring school kids and slaving illegal immigrants ... ''

'' ... most folk most time don''t really dance get well feed world songs rallied round the sick beds drifing the farm trails ... ''

[haley04062]

Great Job Katie, I watched the show tonight and I just loved your segment. Keep up the great work and stay safe and I can''t wait for tomorow''s piece.

[egragert]

Dear Ms. Couric,

Until you ask difficult questions and go where military support and armed guards are not required, I don''t see any value in your reporting from Iraq. It''s no different from the "embedded" reporters with US troops that simply repeated what they were told. If you cannot travel without armed guards, please don''t claim to be reporting objectively.

Ed

[ericmichael1]

Katie,

If we could only learn from history.

The American revolution: The British had the best equipped army in the world. They had far superior tactics. They controlled most major cities in the colonies. But they could not control it all.

The Vietnam War: The U.S. had the best equipped army in the world. They had far superior military tactics. They won every major engagement with the enemy. They controlled the cities. But they could not control it all.

The U.S. cannot remain in Iraq indefinitely. It is bankrupting the nation. Even professionals in the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point have criticized the continued U.S. presence in Iraq.

The war has been a failure. It is time to allow the Iraqis to govern themselves.

Eric

[leeaton]

Ms. Couric, I''d planned to watch your segment from Iraq this week until I saw the preview on Bob Schieffer''s show where you simply parroted Gen. Petreus without asking any really tough questions. Wish you''d take the time to read Paul Krugman''s column in the 9-3-07 edition of the New York Times where he talks about newspeople who didn''t learn any lessons from the past 5 years. Do you see any parallels in what Colin Powell was saying to the public and what the General is saying?

[ccn228]

Katie,
I really respect your decision to go over to Iraq in order to better understand what is going on. I sincerely hope that every measure of security is being taken, and that everyone with you fully understands the potential danger that you are in. I would hate to think that this is a ratings ploy like some say, but I think I know you better than that. I know that you are doing this for journalism and as a mission for truth.
Katie, please, please be careful. Stay safe. You are too wonderful of a journalist, woman, leader, and, most importantly, mother to have anything happen to you. My thoughts and prayers are with you every day.

We eagerly await your safe return home,
Christina

[hillwood10]

why are you in iraq? I read your piece, nothing new there, why are you there? i would have thought a 4 star general (THE MAN) would have more imporant things to do then spend a day visting w/reporter. i bet he gets tired of wet nursuing the media, you think?

[briggsml]

Thanks Katie. I appreciate your perspective. Its good to know that you realize that you may not be getting the ''average'' Iraqi perspective or be seeing their conditions. I haven''t seen your video reports yet, but I look forward to seeing them. Be safe and get home soon to your girls!

[oakishpines]

'' ...

7 billion folk = 90,000 countys of 90,000 folk

52 million global square miles is 577 county square miles, or 24 miles x 24,

or 127,000 feet county span x 127,000

90,000 county folk is 300 trail groups of 300 folk,

or 17.32 county trail groups x 17.32

300 folk in a ''plus'' or ''+'' pattern is 150 vertical trail group span and 150 horizontal

17.32 trail groups vertical or horizontal multiplied by 150 folk vertical or horizontal is 2600 folk vertical county span by 2600 folk horizontal

127,000 feet county span divided by 2600 folk county span is 50 feet per folkone

such that each 50 feet of trail is a whole new folkone immersed in a whole new gardenone,

alas, passing backward again into the 50 feet of trail recently visited: one finds that the gardenone is wholly regenerated and / or moved on somespace else, and / or the occupying folkone is wholly regenerated and / or moved on somespace else

so life is like a brand new little set of flash cards each fifty feed forward or back or left or right

and each map emotional and/or artcraft is again-obsolete each few moments

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'' ... walking on the moon would have been a waste of time if market share tax money armor weapons alcohol and parades could not have been stolen from all the little girls ... ''


'' ... dream not of how many little children the parents of your government can silence for you, dream of how many you can silence for the parents of your government ... ''

[mh4cbs1]

Katie: "I also feel that domestically, Americans may have become so conditioned, possibly some even invested, in the notion of complete failure here in Iraq that they almost don''t want to hear about any progress."

Sure, things are really looking up. Just like when the CIA overthrew Mossadeq in 1953 to regain control of Iran''s Oil. Worked for awhile with our brutal puppet dictator the Shah. But guess what? The Iranians got tired of the Shah and so now we have ruling fundamentalist Clerics.

What you idiots in the corporate news media don''t understand (or pretend not to), and what the American people are beginning to realize, is that they were LIED to, and that this Invasion and Occupation is simply a horrific, needless WAR started by our corporate-owned government. The SOBs who LIED us into this War had hoped to dominate the MiddleEast and control the Oil. Even now they are profiting from the War while our middle class troops die for their greed.

No amount of progress will ever justify the hell that the NeoCons have already unleashed with the help of complicit corporate-owned Democrats and CBS corporate media. Americans also know there will be future inevitable blowback from the permanent US occupation and Oil-grab(like the fueling of terrorist recruitment that has already taken place).

So, Americans understand that this WAR is fundamentally MORALLY and STRATEGICALLY WRONG, regardless of the constant hollow claims of "progress" from the corporate "news personalities".