What if the Troops Came Home, and No One Reported It
It’s a fact: President Bush stated that the US will pull 30,000 surge troops out of Iraq in a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Bush at Foreign & Commonwealth Office Building at the Lacarno Treaty Room London, England on June 16, 2008.
Seems sort of newsworthy to me. I am in favor of the troops coming home, when their job is reasonably complete, and have relatives and an old roomate over there who I take a personal interest in coming home safely. So, I sort of follow such things as leaders of the free world mentioning that troops are coming home.
Yet, outside of the Chicago Daily Observer (and our ever faithful reader/contributor Bill Baar), and a few Iraqi newsites, this seems to be of little interest to the press. There is quite a bit at stake here; the allies have spent a great ... Read More...
