From CBS:

 A CBS News poll shows Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with the Iraq war, President Bush and the Congress, as well as the overall direction of the country.

More Americans than ever before, 77 percent, say the war is going badly, up from 66 percent just two months ago. Nearly half, 47 percent, say it’s going very badly.

While the springtime surge in U.S. troops to Iraq is now complete, more Americans than ever are calling for U.S. forces to withdraw.

Further down in the story one finds that “Congress also fared poorly in the poll. Its approval rating was also at 27 percent — a 9-point drop from last month.”

So, you know–bang the drum.  Absent from these findings, of course, is any consideration of how Americans view the media at this point in time.  The author and editors have also found a clever way to insinuate that the surge is over, since the MSM fails to distinguish between the troop numbers and the strategy, both indicated by “surge.”

Yesterday, Bob Owens posted on more media reportage of Iraqi atrocities cited by anonymous police sources far from the locations where the atrocities are rumored to have occurred.  I don’t want to say that they cannot learn, but it is evident that they do not.

You cannot find this kind of news in the MSM:

In Baghdad, clearing operations have focused on the Rashid District in the west and New Baghdad (or Sadr City) in the east. In the Rashid neighborhood of Amil, U.S. forces found a cache of Iranian-made rocket parts, which included “several empty 107mm cases with the same lot numbers as those seized June 17, one rocket launcher, materials to build more than 50 launchers, 13 60mm mortar rounds, one 81mm mortar, rocket-propelled grenades, a large quantity of homemade and plastic explosives,” and small arms and ammunition. Also, two weapons caches were found in mosques in Rashid. Seven insurgents were killed and 17 captured since June 27.

In the Risalah neighborhood, three insurgents were killed and seven captured on June 28. “An alleged IED cell member with known connections to Jaish Al-Mahdi leaders” and a “financier of a local terrorist cell” were among those captured. In Sadr City, Coalition soldiers captured five insurgents and uncovered three small weapons caches. 
 

You have to rely on non-traditional sources such as Yon and Roggio, because the MSM spend about as much time with military sources as Democratic congressional leaders spend at Pentagon congressional briefings, which is to say, hardly any.  In the MSM’s version, there are no accomplishments–only setbacks, mistakes, miscalculations and atrocities.  And some congresscritters want to bring back the fairness doctrine?  Shove one’s penis up their collective rectum.