"..the United States is optimistic. Just this week, General David Petraeus said U.S. troops could be out of Baghdad by July.
One might think a tentative agreement to end the Iraq war would lead the news that night. And you’d be half right. On August 21—the day word leaked of the agreement—ABC World News with Charlie Gibson led off with the story and did a long package with correspondent Jonathan Karl. Yet the next night, there was nothing—although the broadcast did find air time for two teenagers who nearly died in a snow cave collapse in Washington state."
Poster's comments:
This is interesting in that it is from a left-wing think tank; it is becoming so obvious that we are winning in Iraq it's impossible to hide. Currently the mantra to avoid admitting they were wrong all this time is that there isn't enough political progress, or that an Iraq victory isn't important because we should have invaded the country named 'Al-Qaeda' with it's king Osama Bin Laden.
The military genious of the Iraq war was that it gathered Al-Qaeda's money, efforts and attention from 80 countries into just one - Iraq - where they were soundly defeated.
Jason
9/7/2008 12:17:00 PM