Rumsfeld Says the Media Focus Too Much on Negatives in Iraq - New York Times

Rumsfeld Says the Media Focus Too Much on Negatives in Iraq - New York Times:

Rumsfeld is right. By and large, the media in this country are biased against war generally and this war in particular and exerts that bias often in coverage and analysis of the Iraq war. If this isn't true, why do we not see features which cover the rebuilding efforts that are ongoing and successful?

Then we have Vermont's former Governor, Dr. Dean, making these statements: Democratic Chairman Howard Dean on Monday likened the war in Iraq to Vietnam and said, ''The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong,'' comments that drew immediate fire from Republicans.

In an interview with WOAI-AM in San Antonio, Dean criticized what he called President Bush's ''permanent commitment to a failed strategy'' while saying, ''We need to be out of there and take the targets off our troops back.'' Dean recalled that the strategy to stay the course in Vietnam cost thousands more lives to be lost. (quoted from NY Times 12/6 AP story)

Rummy's comment:

"'We've arrived at a strange time in this country where the worst about America and our military seems to so quickly be taken as truth by the press, and reported and spread around the world, often with little context and little scrutiny, let alone correction or accountability after the fact,' he said in a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies."