Why is it that we here so much the Iraq war and nothing about our troops in Afganastan?

When the liberation of Afghanistan was complete, the US Government announced that all satellite imagery from the area had been purchased by the USA for an indefinite period of time. It is not possible for anyone outside of the US Government to have access to satellite photography in Afghanistan.

Also, physically it is very difficult for independent news sources to actually get anywhere outside of Kabul. The country is extremely mountainous and the road infrastructure is in ruins. The country has literally millions of landmines that were placed with little rhyme or reason. Even if the people who placed them wanted to pay to remove them, there are no maps of where they are because they were simply dropped from helicopters or planted by roving patrols.

Iraq, no matter what anyone wants to say, is a relatively modern country with an adequate transportation net except in the Kurdish areas (again, mountainous plus it was heavily persecuted under the Hussein regime). Iraq has extensive open borders with several countries that would not mind the Coalition being embarrassed by reporters who can sneak in just as easily as terrorists can (maybe they carpool together?).

Also, there just isn't as much interest in the viewing public for information coming from Afghanistan. The US presence is about 1/5 the size in Iraq, and the forces there are largely Special Forces who are not supposed to be photographed anyways. The bulk of the Coalition forces are actually not American, so that would shoot down the whole "Anti-American Conspiracy Theory" that we hear so much about (a French soldier was just killed there the other day, in case anyone cares).

Things are pretty stable in Afgahnistan, but in Iraq there is a lot of conflict both from terrorists and from warring sects of Islam.

The moto of the news is "if it bleeds it leads". The Iraqi situation fits this requirement much better than what's going on in Afgahnistan

well we heard about the prez. and wife were there yesterday. i think because there is so much more killing still going on in iraq and quite frankly the reason osama could exist there is because nobody cared about afghanistan. meaning the other middle eastern countries and as bad as it sounds in comparrison it is a lower priorty

the U.S. has more economic interests in Iraq. There's much more oil there and a lot more at stake.

Politics, propaganda, and ratings.