And trying to blame the media for this fiasco is B.S. too.
Americans have access to almost instantaneous reporting on the war from many national and international news outlets. They're able to phone and e-mail their active duty sons and daughters about the conduct of the war.
It's not as if they're getting a handful of letters home every few months while they depend on Walter Cronkite to give them fifteen minutes of war news at 5:30.
Yes the liberal media still sucks, but Republicans need to stop whining and accept the fact their mismanagement of Iraq cost control of Congress.
BTTT!
Not many Americans have access to any information except what they read in the papers or on TV. Furthermore, so much of what is reported to taken from the AP or Reuters or the NYT. If the view of Iraq presented by the administration has been too sanquine, that of the media has been over the top, and "facts" gathers by Arab stringers and filtered through editors who have been hostile to intervention from day one. Reports from Iraq tell us that while things have no gotten "better", they are by no means as bad as what is reported. The thing to remember is that the Muslims--all of them-- do not want us in the Middle East, they do not want us to set up a client state, and certainly they do not want Israel. If they had their way, they would get us to give us our unconditional support of Israel, which has been the cornerstone of our policy since Nixon's time. I think the Europeans, or many of them, would love to be rid of Israel.