Bet you didn’t know about MNF-Iraq.com
Tuesday, 7 February 2006 | 131 readers so far
I’m guessing most of you haven’t visited MNF-Iraq.com. It is an excellent resource for discovering the official coalition perspective on what’s happening inside Iraq. It also has a lot of useful information for those of us who are serving in MNF-I or a subordinate command.
Did you know you can read transcripts of the weekly briefings given by generals in Iraq to the media? You can take a look at the PowerPoint slide presentations too. It’s not light reading, but there is gold buried in them thar hills if you’re willing to prospect a little bit. Plenty of other features will probably catch your interest, including video and photos. If you care about what is really happening in Iraq, you should see a side of things you probably haven’t seen in detail.
You can read exactly what the generals are saying and find out what questions they were asked by the press. And you might even scratch your head and wonder why most of what you read doesn’t make it into your local news source, or sounds so different when it does.
Full disclosure: I’m one of the webmasters of the above mentioned site. I’m not trying to blow my own horn here, just sharing a resource I think has value.
1 February 7th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Mudville Gazette says:
are all good to go; I am really pleased with them individually and as a team. I will NOT be disappointed to leave, but it is good to be handing everything over to a team who I fell will continue to grow it vice re-invent what we have already done. Bet you didn’t know about MNF-Iraq.com — [The Will to Exist - in Iraq] …Did you know you can read transcripts of the weekly briefings given by generals in Iraq to the media? You can take a look at the PowerPoint slide presentations too. It’s not light reading, but there is gold buried
2 February 7th, 2006 at 10:48 am
EXDemocrat says:
Actually, that has become one of my only sources for information and news about Iraq. I don’t read the paper or watch the news anymore, they are unreliable and just plain negative.
Thank you.
3 February 7th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Green says:
I seem to remember having heard about it some place or another…tee-hee-hee-hee…
4 February 7th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Cheryl Friend says:
I look at this site everyday!!
5 February 7th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
Soldier's Dad says:
Just a bit of nitpicking.
Could the transcripts, along with the Slides..be posted a bit quicker?
Rumsfeld talks at some rotary club function and the transcipts are up in minutes. Gen Lynch talks from Baghdad, and the transcripts and Slides take days, sometimes week.
No offense to Rumsfeld, but if the “Generals on the ground” are running things, then what they have to say is more important.
6 February 9th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
SK says:
Thanks for sending me the link last week. Appreciate it!
7 February 9th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
LL says:
I got the link from a friend. I love the site. The headlines are positive and I think they reflect the military’s attitude about their mission, which is SO important for the public to know.
ps–my fave is the Freedom Facts. Today’s fact, about how many Iraqi women are in their Parliament, was surprising. I wish every paper or news station had a Freedom Fact.