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While the ultimate outcome of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is hardly in doubt, reports from battlefields around Iraq since Sunday indicate that the U.S. victory may not come as quickly, or as painlessly as early successes had suggested. Sunday TV broadcasts brought images of stronger than expected Iraqi resistance in towns in the south and on the road to Baghdad, and also the news that U.S. troops had died on the battlefield (some possibly in captivity) and others had been taken prisoner. The march to Baghdad suddenly threatened to get a lot bloodier...
...reminded the public that the road to Baghdad may be long and difficult, while Iraqi officers watching in the capital may have sensed vulnerability among the advancing coalition forces. U.S. military planners began speaking Monday of the possibility of destroying Saddam's broadcast system. But bad news from the battlefield on U.S. and Arab TV may also have a significant effect on the conflict...
...fight. But the conflict was still America's longest, ending years after the onslaught of body bags at dinnertime. As FX's timely movie The Pentagon Papers (March 9, 8 p.m. E.T.) shows, many of that war's most egregious mistakes were made thousands of miles from a battlefield, in Washington parlors and Pentagon basements--and one of the greatest journalistic coups of the war involved plain old words in print...
...albeit sincere) talk about duty--hardly differs from much war news. In a way, the series is even subversive: the Bush Administration won the semantic battle to describe the struggle against terrorism as a war, but Profiles shows that the actual work looks more like policing. As with the battlefield reports Ellsberg pored over, it needs a skeptical eye--but that just makes its story that much more interesting...
...Iraq. Ansar al-Islam has sent a clear reminder they are willing, and able, to strike anywhere. A month ago they assassinated a senior party and military official in the midst of negotiations with extremist elements. The Kurdish fighters along this frontline are anxiously awaiting the arrival on the battlefield of U.S. bombers and ground troops - to dispatch not only Saddam and Ba'ath Party, but also Ansar and its al-Qaeda backers...