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The three networks choose separate angles from Iraq. ABC had Miguel Marquez file from al-Jadidah, a "dusty little town" north of Baghdad where Gen David Petraeus was meeting and greeting the locals "like a politician running a grassroots campaign." Marquez explained that a lull in violence during the holy month of Ramadan has allowed Petraeus to shift his focus. Instead of worrying about security, he talked reconstruction--how to make a road passable during the rainy season; how to fix the town's unreliable electric generator.
CBS and NBC both turned to their Pentagon correspondents. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski covered the request by Gen James Conway, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, for a total pullout of his 25,000 forces from Iraq. He wants to swap duties with the USArmy, sending Marines to Afghanistan and bringing soldiers from Afghanistan into Iraq. "The Marines believe their primary mission is to seize territory--than turn it over to the army and get out." On CBS, David Martin covered a coordinated attack by 14 rockets fired from an abandoned school, five miles distant, that hit Camp Victory near Baghdad Airport, the headquarters of Gen Raymond Odierno, and killed two soldiers. Martin quoted unnamed "US military officers" as blaming "equipment and training provided by Iran for the increased accuracy of rocket and mortar attacks."
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