Contrary To Other Reporting, Petraeus Is Recommending Troop Withdrawals Because Of Surge Success
Yesterday I noticed that the Associated Press was busy spinning a letter from General David Petraeus to the troops. In their reporting the AP cherry-picked a quote which seemed to indicate that the General doesn’t think the surge has worked out as hoped. I pointed out that he was only talking about the political aspects of Iraq, and that he still had confidence that could be fixed with time, but regardless the cherry-picked quote is now being used all over the media by those with a political agenda against the war.
But today the General is in the news again, this time indicating that the surge has been so successful that he’ll be advising troop withdrawals to the President.
General David Petraeus, US military commander in Iraq, will tell President George W Bush in a public report on Monday that the “surge” of troops has been successful enough that a drawdown of forces can begin next year.
It was reported today that he will recommend that a brigade of 4,000 soldiers can be withdrawn as early as January but that much deeper reductions could take place later in 2008.
Don’t expect the media to retract their previous slanted, shallow reporting.
