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While the American media megalith has turned its eyes elsewhere: domestic health care, the world economy, the demise of the American automaker, Iraq has continued to simmer. Much less has changed in Iraq's day-to-day levels of violence, than has changed in America's interest in the reporting of said violence. The state George Bush the II rebirthed with great shock and furious awe continues to spasm with bloody contractions.

Yesterday in an article by the Associated Press which largely concentrated on the elections in the Kurdish north, this level of violence was noted with barely a comment or a reflection.

"a roadside bombing targeting a police patrol in southern Kirkuk wounded five people, including four Iraqi police officers...

Elsewhere in Iraq, two bombs exploded in Fallujah near the area headquarters of the Iraqi Islamic Party...Four people were killed and 25 wounded and a building partially collapsed destroying 12 shops...In northern Baghdad, a bomb attached to a car exploded in Azamiyah, killing the driver and wounding a bystander..."

This is the norm, not exceptional. And one day ere too long, the American media will turn its lens back to Iraq, likely it will try to create new fears and expectations, perhaps directing the blame at President Obama's policies. The situation will have remained much the same the whole time, only the reporting of it will have changed.

Labels: 2008's President, Middle East, Politics