Monday, December 15, 2008

Bush's Newest Iraq Visit Already Drawing Media Swipes

The country awoke to surprising news that President George W. Bush had flown off to visit Iraq in a sort of farewell tour of the place that drove his presidency. With an early report, Reuters gave a few backhanded slaps at Bush that we are sure to see grow throughout the Old Media as the day progresses. [snip]

Next, Reuters unleashes what is not quite a truthful exposition of the facts.

"It will now be left to Obama, a Democrat and early opponent of U.S. military involvement in Iraq, to sort out an exit strategy after he takes office on January 20."
This is not necessarily so. Obama could easily simply allow the already agreed upon withdrawal to occur and do nothing else. Obama need not 'figure out' how to remove U.S. troops from Iraq because there is already an agreement between the U.S. and Iraq in place.

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