Thursday, May 19, 2005
Reality vs. The Bush League: Newsweek Causes Iraq Insurgency!
In the wake of the Newsweek article "irresponsibly" reminding the Muslim world of old charges of Koran desecration at the otherwise-popular Guantanamo Club Fed Resort, American generals reported a stunning reversal of our highly successful Iraq policy:in time for the 2006 elections after successfully "turning the corner on the insurgency" is those careless liberal media fiends at Newsweek. So sayeth W and his Bush League henchmen about this particular report, anyway. As Hoffmania notes, The Bush League wasn't so critical of inaccurate reports from anonymous sources supporting Bush Administration policies...
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In interviews and briefings this week, some of the generals pulled back from recent suggestions, some by the same officers, that positive trends in Iraq could allow a major drawdown in the 138,000 American troops late this year or early in 2006. One officer suggested Wednesday that American military involvement could last "many years."Obviously, the reason we can no longer withdraw those troops
(Source: New York Times Generals Offer a Sober Outlook on Iraqi War, May 19, 2005
