Good news from Iraq: Parliament has approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's plan for securing Baghdad, which means that President Bush's new strategy has the legal approval of the Iraqi government.
Bad news from Iraq, according to the New York Times:
Iraq's Shiite prime minister and Sunni lawmakers hurled insults at one another during a raucous session of Parliament on Thursday, with the prime minister threatening a Sunni lawmaker with arrest and the Sunni speaker of Parliament threatening to quit.
That's the lead paragraph. The 27th paragraph--yes, the twenty-seventh--finally informs us of the outcome:
Eventually, though, the tensions eased and Parliament approved the security plan.
If Parliament had rejected the plan, do you think the Times would have waited until the 27th paragraph to tell us?
diumenge, 28 de gener del 2007
Les notícies de l'Iraq, segons el NYT
James Taranto escriu això a WSJ:
