Another Michael Totten Article

Meet Lieutenant Colonel Mike Silverman
Totten's interview with Silverman is pretty interesting. The bulk of the questions revolve around Ramadi, the Awakening, and so on, but some questions revolve around the media.
Totten often asks LC Silverman what he thinks about the media's coverage of the war in Iraq and suprisingly enough, he feels it is good.
There are, however, a few points he wished the media did a better job reporting.

With this being the biggest:

“What’s the most important thing Americans need to know about Iraq that they don’t currently know?” I said.

“That we’re fighting Al Qaeda,” he said without hesitation. “[Abu Musab al] Zarqawi invented Al Qaeda in Iraq. The top leadership outside Iraq squawked and thought it was a bad idea. Then he blew up the Samarra mosque, triggered a civil war, and got the whole world’s attention. Then the Al Qaeda leadership outside dumped huge amounts of money and people and arms into Anbar Province. They poured everything they had into this place. The battle against Americans in Anbar became their most important fight in the world. And they lost.”