60 Minutes: US Responsible for Poor Security in Iraq

Weapons of Mass Destruction ^ | 11-6-05 | dundare

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This is my first post here, despite being a long time lurker. I wrote about this on my blog (link above), but wanted to pass this along.

CBS and the staff at 60 Minutes apparently disagree with me. In the show's first segment tonight, Lara Logan traveled the road, spoke to some heroic US troops and a young Iraqi who travels the road every day.

In the piece, Lt. Colonel Geoffrey Slack and his men come across as professional, capable, patriotic and heroic. Despite this, Lara Logan appears suspicious that Lt. Colonel Slack might be feeding her the official line rather than his own feelings. During the conversation with the Lt. Colonel, she wonders whether this is all worth and whether both the road and Iraq would be better off if the US simply left. She makes this quite clear and the Lt. Colonel makes his feelings clear on the subject. Further, in her conversations with the young Iraqi man, she continues along this line. Logan leads the young man into making clear that the Americans are the problem, the road is no safer, and that the Americans are the real danger in Iraq.

I am not one to regularly cry media bias, but this segment was a long way from objective. Once again, 60 Minutes and CBS let their viewers down.