Read All About It: Making Progress in Iraq
Filed under: Middle East
Nearly three weeks ago, we reported the dramatic news on the effectiveness of the "surge" of additional troops deployed by President Bush in Iraq in reducing casualties and preserving order. Now, the nation's so-called "paper of record" has finally gotten around to the story, with a front-page article yesterday on the drop in casualties and one today on individual people's lives returning to normal. Watch them squirm as they try to rationalize and minimize the data! If these were the opposite figures, showing significant increases in casualties and insecurity, you can bet there would be an editorial in today's paper bashing Bush. Can we then expect one praising him? Not a chance. Four editorials today, none about the good news from Iraq. Yesterday four as well, none on Iraq, one bashing Bush on 9/11-related "torture."
The dodo paper just doesn't get it. So it will go the way of.