Walters Denies Surge Success

"View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck touted the success of the surge before "objective" journalist Barbara Walters dismissed it.

Hasselbeck then pulled some numbers noting the Iraqis "met 12 of the 18 benchmarks" and "90,000 of the Sunnis have decided to join U.S. forces."

Walters responded by dismissing those figures adding "darling you can get all of the statistics you want, but you’ve had more violence than you’ve had in months."

The entire transcript is below.

[I see - for months as the violence kept falling the mantra was "so what? it was all about political benchmarks". Now that the benchmarks are happening, we're back to violence as the yardstick. a yardstick of a few weeks...]

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