Iraq visits by congressmen and Senators Staged events

It seems now that rather than a briefing on what is going on in Iraq congressmen and Senators have been receiving what amounts to Pr campaign orchastrated by the Miltary and the Bush adm to convince them that surge was working.

The congressmen and Senators were set up with pr officers. The senators and congressmen's bios were plastered all over the green zone. Spin City," Rep. Moran said of the incident. "The Iraqis and the Americans were all singing from the same song sheet, and it was deliberately manipulated."

They are restrict from who they are meeting with and are only given access to what amounts to specfic officals and soilders that were prescreen to talk to them. On several occasion people that tried to talk to them were cut off, block as when they started trying to tell them what was really going on.

This brings into question what is really going on in iraq and if we are really being given a the picture or this is simply another con game by this adm to keep the war going. Is the surge really working or not I now question if what the congress member are coming back with is the truth or is simply a well orchastraed fraud by the adm to convince them and us it is. I don't think the adm would be going to this level of restricted access if it was. They seem to be so desperate to keep the war going they will resort to even staged events for congress to convince them things are going well even if they aren't.