CBS’s Lara Logan Slams American Media’s Reporting on Iraq War

Lara Logan appears on Comedy Central with Jon Stewart and slams American Media’s coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She feels even with the American public tired of the wars after five longs years that is no excuse.

She uses the recent battles in Sadr City as an example. According to Lara there were 12 to 15 hour pitched battles in heavily populated urban areas that hardly got a mention in the American media.

Yes, Americans may be tired of hearing about the war but how much do they really know about what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan? And how much do they really want to know?

What is needed is for every member of the Bush administration and all members of congress to spend a month in Iraq and Afghanistan. And not in a highly protected cushy hotel in the Green Zone but embedded in an American combat unit. After a few weeks of making the rounds with the soldiers and marines perhaps a few accurate stories of how our troops really spend their nights and days would make it back to the American media.

War is a dirty, brutal business. If more of our leaders and public truly realized just how brutal and dirty perhaps we would be less inclined to engage in war.

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