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A reader sent me this link.
Ok, if the DOD is rotating in 92,000 troops of the course of this year, and they decided NOT to rotate in 3,500 of them, that means we're now only rotating in 88,500 troops.
Yet another “troop reduction” that slips by the mainstream media.
Because it's gotten to the point that ordinary people ask better questions then the journalists do...
Head over to last week's Ask the White House. Everything you ever wanted to know about the administration's point of view, direct from the “Director for Iraq” on the National Security Council.
Remember, I started blogging because I found that the media couldn't even report what the administration said correctly. So whether you agree with the administration or not, you should at least know exactly what they said, not what's its been reported they said.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up my view of the war. Two choices which suck. Anyways, Michael Totten is in Iraqi, and interviews the caretaker of a Shia shrine here
In place of the civil war that elements in our media declared, I saw full streets, open shops, traffic jams, donkey carts, Muslim holiday flags - and children everywhere, waving as our Humvees passed. Even the clouds of dust we stirred up didn't deter them. And the presence of children in the streets is the best possible indicator of a low threat level.
A few days ago, a wild claim that the Baghdad morgue held 1,300 bodies was treated as Gospel truth. Yet Iraqis exaggerate madly and often have partisan interests. Did any Western reporter go to that morgue and count the bodies - a rough count would have done it - before telling the world the news?
Read the whole thing.
Instapundit is right if we lose this war, I will blame the media. I started blogging because after I subscribed to the State Department email of the daily news briefing, and I compared it to what was broadcast, I realized:
The press aren't even good stenographers. Anything they say the administration said, may not even be true.
Looks like Mudville Gazette found the same thing.
Look, I understand how journalism works. I write for a local monthly paper. I realize that if every day the masthead said “Today, pretty much like Yesterday”, no one would shell out $0.50 for a paper.
But even the lefty art rag I write for interviewed a soldier who served in Iraq this month, and they got it right. Why can't the big guys?
