Reporting the "good" news from Iraq

Last week some bloggers exposed Republican candidate for the US House posting photos showing how sage downtown Baghdad was, when the pictures were actually taken in Turkey. Howard Kaloogian is running for the US House in CA's 50th District, the seat formerly held by the convicted felon, Duke Cunningham. Kaloogian toured Iraq in 2005 with some radio talk show hosts. Kaloogian stated the fake photos were just a clerical error made by his staff.

Here is the picture that Kaloogian posted on his website saying it was taken in Baghdad, when it was actually a photo from Turkey:

The caption under the picture read, "We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it -- in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism."

Here is the pciture the Bush administration really wanted him to post on his blog claiming it was a picture from the streets of Tikrit, Iraq from the same trip:


Another Republican Kahoolgianed his chances for election last summer by doctoring a photo from a Howard Dean rally and put his photo in place of Dean. Then there was the ad over Christmas showing the soldier in Iraq watching Democrats speak about pulling out of Iraq, when he was actually watching the "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Does anyone see a pattern?