"GREAT ARTICLE, BUT IT DOESNT ANSWER THE BIG QUESTION- WHY?
that is the enduring mystery to me- why."
If your statement elucidates the question, why the L/MSM does not provide a balanced view of how many good things have happened in Iraq during the SASO phase. I think it is has a simple answer.
Answer: They are fearful that Americans may get the idea that what GWB started, may bear good fruit. They fear greatly that a strong Republican POTUS took the proper route, and that any good news counters what the slimmy liberal left politicians keep trying to do. That is. Make GWB look bad. Why? Because they have an agenda, and that is to deceive by whatever means Americans into wanting to elect liberal left wingers to the presidency. So why does the L/MSM constitute a body of deceiving often far left liberal social point of view? Tis a very long story.
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"People in the liberal media, like Hersh, apparently are so distrustful of the Bush administration and so fearful of the "neocon" influence at the Pentagon that they are apparently willing to subordinate our national security interests to undermine this influence in the administration. During the interview I didn't notice Wolf raising one question with Hersh about the propriety of his report. These self-anointed journalists of the Old Media believe their motives are beyond scrutiny. They serve a higher calling. Their wisdom transcends national loyalties; they goodness cannot be confined to artificial nation state constructs.
Hersh's report -- true or not -- is shameful and disgraceful and people should call him to the carpet for it. I suppose we'll see the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other MSM dinosaurs railing against this over the next few days. It's time that the New Media jumped all over this and called into question Hersh, the Old Media and their unpatriotic reporting here.
Yes, I said it: unpatriotic. If tipping off the enemy isn't unpatriotic can you tell me what is? And don't you dare tell me the public has a right to know. There are certain things the public must not know, because if it knows, so does the enemy. You can't protect a public that insists on being informed as to sensitive intelligence and military operations. It's time we remove this artificial halo from this public's right to know construct."
Another view of the media.