Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995 |
Bush End Game Bush - Second Term Bush - First Term Who Is Bob Gates? 2004 Campaign
Behind
Colin Powell's Legend
The
2000 Campaign
Media
Crisis
The Clinton Scandals Nazi Echo The Dark Side of Rev. Moon Contra Crack Lost History The October Surprise
"X-Files"
International |
At every opportunity for the past week or more, U.S. reporters and commentators have badgered Barack Obama about his refusal to admit that he was wrong about the Iraq troop “surge” and that John McCain was right.
But there is a more subtle question that the U.S. press corps doesn’t seem capable of addressing: whether George W. Bush’s “surge” was really responsible for the decline in violence over the past year. Some Iraqis have a different view of what happened. (Written story continues below) As for the U.S. presidential race, the question isn’t just an academic one, since the supposed “success” of the “surge” has begun reshaping the campaign in favor of McCain, who is paradoxically never challenged by reporters to admit that he was wrong about pushing the Iraq invasion in the first place. TheRealNews.com is an independent news network that produces stories of global interest. To comment at Consortiumblog, click here. (To make a blog comment about this or other stories, you can use your normal e-mail address and password. Ignore the prompt for a Google account.) To comment to us by e-mail, click here. To donate so we can continue publishing stories like the one you just read, click here. |
|
RSS Feed
Home
Links
Contact Us
Books
Bookmark
Digg
Email