'Miami Herald' Latest Newspaper to Call for Iraq Exit: "Note to the White House..."

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Editor&Publisher: 'Miami Herald' Latest to Call for Iraq Exit
By E&P Staff
Published: September 19, 2007

NEW YORK After four years of war and occupation in Iraq, only a handful of newspapers had called for U.S. disengagement until this past spring summer. Now their ranks are increasing almost every day -- following what some feel was a disapponting or heavily manipulated "surge" report by General Petraeus and President Bush -- with a prime addition this week of The Miami Herald.

The Chicago Sun-Times chimed in on Sunday: "The military shouldn't be judged by some mysterious and wavering yardstick. Our brave men and women fighting the war shouldn't be working toward promises that Bush obviously can't deliver in his presidency. What does the U.S. military have to achieve in Iraq to reduce our troops -- not just to our pre-surge force of more than 130,000 troops but the far more significantly scaled-down troop numbers voters have demanded?"

Here is an escerpt from the Herald editorial:

"Note to the White House: Most Americans aren't on your clock. The notion that Iraq's leaders haven't had enough time to set up a functional government four and a half years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein is not convincing.

Nor is Mr. Bush likely to win any converts to his side when he once again tries to conflate the war in Iraq with the war against terrorism by saying a free Iraq will deny al Qaeda a safe haven. Even if every al Qaeda terrorist in Iraq were eliminated today, U.S. soldiers would still find themselves in the middle of a fierce civil war that shows few signs of abating....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003643682

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1. Never thought I'D see the day

That rag got something right. Only took 'em five years to figure it out.