Not changing the subject at all ..... the following I typed from Tony Snow’s speech!!!
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“..for months, the media avoided asking about progress in Iraq. Despite repeated reports from the field that Iraqis had turned against al Qaeda, the news seldom made it into newspapers, and almost never on front pages. Last week, the military reported that civilian deaths in Iraq had hit their lowest point since 2003. U.S. and Iraqi deaths and casualties similarly had declined. So what led the paper the next moring? Stories about Blackwater. The statistics that put the war in perspective were relegated to the back pages of the Washington Post and in some publications, to oblivion.”
any typing errors are mine!!!!!! because I could not copy it.
Should read, "So what led the paper the next morning? Stories about Blackwater, the organization which is in the news only because of the draconian reduction in standing army strength brought about by Presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990's"