Like I Said, They’re on the Other Side.

Well, no kidding.

A secret intelligence assessment of the first battle of Fallujah shows that the U.S. military thinks that it lost control over information about what was happening in the town, leading to “political pressure” that ended its April 2004 offensive with control being handed to Sunni insurgents.
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The authors said the press was “crucial to building political pressure to halt military operations,” from the Iraqi government and the Coalition Provisional Authority, which resulted in a “unilateral cease-fire” by U.S. forces on April 9, after just five days of combat operations.

The press has been complicit with a great many Islamist victories in Iraq and has been working very hard to reverse the great progress made there since General Petraeus’ new strategy gave our solders the impetus to beat them (the Islamists, that is, not the press) like rented mules.

So it’s no shock to see it spelled out in official black and white. I can’t help but wonder why the military and the White House was so slow to react, considering that everyone and his brother on my side of the issue was screaming about how the press was not just being biased but was undermining our troops in Iraq on purpose. George Bush still seems incapable of getting someone on his staff who can wage war with the press as effectively as General Petraeus has waged war on the Islamists.

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Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., The Long War Here At Home