For anyone on this blog truly interested in taking a stand beyond firing totally useless barbs and insults at one another, do what I did this morning, and will continue to do until the US rights its course -- voice your concerns to ALL of your state's congressional reps. Send letters, emails, and call their offices regardless of their district.
What we have in the US is either apathy, or "analysis paralysis" -- but not nearly enough true activism on behalf of the American public.
While to some, it might sound naive or futile, I still believe that it is worth the time and effort to share my views and concerns with the political body that has the ability to bring our troops home, and to prevent Bush's planned attack on Iran. These are the folks who really need to hear your voices. And they need to hear it NOW, before it is too late.

Katie continues the glorious tradition of white cowards trampling the graves of brown innocents they have recently murdered.

Couric walks on the graves of innocent women and children and declares progress. God bless you Katie, rotting flesh smells like ....... victory.

As opposed to telling the "truth" that liberals want to hear: Bush bashing, hatred of America, etc.

I saw that.

She is frankly a shill. A Bush-loving, money (CBS) loving shill.

Never a reporter. Never a skeptic. Never a member of the fourth estate.

I think that Bob Schieffer is just biding his time, too. He just smiled, and never dug deeper except her prepared script. He wants to retire safely with his skin intact. Poor thing.

Nice US Constitution and Bill of Rights we used to have.

Ugh.

--UB.

She's not on the TODAY SHOW anymore.When did she leave,wow interesting.

Too little, too late!

Katie isn't reporter enough to see the REAL story, right under her nose: that everything the reporters see & hear is only what the administration wants them to see & hear. Spending the entire report mindlessly & without question repeating the administration's talking points, and then slipping in that ons qualifying phrase shows that she is incapable of doing a real reporters job and finding the truth.

She is better suited for interviewing movie stars and doing fashion reports.

If Couric is there to see only what the powers that be want her to see, then why in hell is she there? Oh yeah, to help the 26%, the dummies, maintain their support of W.
The rest of us know that she'll be "reporting" bullshit.
Silly.

The headline story "Couric: Baghdad Reports Based On "What the US Military Wants Me to See" belies the truth if you watched the entire Schieffer/Couric interview. Couric, far from dissing Bush's surge in Iraq, praised the progress and made it clear that she will push Bush's agenda to continue the daily slaughter.

Her reports from Baghdad all during this week are a prelude to the Petraeus propaganda that will be whitewashed for public consumption in a blistering PR campaign to convince the American citizens that we must continue the Bush war policies until he leaves office in January 2009.

The ultra-conservative organization, Freedom's Watch chief spokesman, former Bush White House press chief, Ari Fleischer, said recently, "All the passion, all the energy, has been on one side. Now, the cavalry is coming. My side will get a chance to get its say."

"My side," ignores all the lies and total mushroom cloud rhetoric that bumped Bush's approval ratings from a dismal 50% to over 90% in the run-up to the Iraq bombing, invasion and occupation of a country that had no connection at all to the catastrophe of 9/11

In the 2006 election in which Bush lost his rubber stamp, gutless, corrupt Republican U.S. Congress he spouted that if the Democrats won either or both houses of congress then America loses and the terrorists win.

Now, Fleischer wants to further this inflammatory ritual of lies and again affirm the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." And, of course, that is the game plan.

Bush operatives are using Katie Couric as his new Miller Lite ala New York Times writer Judith Miller who shilled for Bush's propaganda in those early days of the war. She got rolled along with the rest of the mainstream media during Bush's shock and awe assault against Iraq.

Now, CBS's Couric will aid and abet in allowing Bush to kill and wound hundreds more U.S. military and put tens of thousands more Iraqi citizens in early graves.

Hmmmm...that is a revelation how, Katie?

The embedded reporting and what the military allows you to report is not news, Katie...you know it...Bob Schieffer better know it...and CBS News assuredly knows it.

The day you and CBS go out on a limb and report news for real will be the day that at least one mainstream outlet gets its journalism mojo back. The once mighty CBS News`has long been tarnished...time to restore its former hardhitting glory.

Spoonfed spin is done...here that, Roger Fatboy Ailes?

"Things are going really well. They showed me one."

She is totally out of her depth on this assignment and it shows

Don't want to say I told you so - but I did tell you so when it was first announced that Couric was going to Iraq.

"Why doesn't she simply read the White House talking points from her studio in NY? That's all we are going to eventually get from her anyway. Think anyone will actually allow interviews with the Iraq people that were not hand picked by the Bush administration - think again. posted 08/29/2007 at 07:22:51"

Is there anyone that did not see Couric being played by the administration?

Katie Couric, the Bush/Cheney appologist, said "signs of life that seem to be normal" at a market she visited."

Why do these tools only go to some market?

Why don't they talk to the Iraqi people where they live, in what is left of their homes?

Why not talk to the two million Iraqis who escaped to Syria, Jordan or Egypt and are living in poverty?

What is the point of walking around a market in Iraq?

I am not impressed.

Not to worry, General Petraeus. There's plenty of Kool Aid for everyone.