US stays the course in Iraq while media loses

AND now for some news from the front. Iraq says it's ready to stand on its own two feet, and the United States is planning a gradual pullout. War over. Sorry, I should have prepared you for this. I can see you're shocked.

You never saw this coming, did you? No wonder. The way the media has reported Iraq has been like reporting every Allied setback in World War II - from Dunkirk to the Battle of the Bulge - without mentioning the fact that the Nazis were still, ahem, beaten.

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