Wait, you mean BBC is biased? Damn. Another bubble burst. Sigh. :-D Michael Dinowitz wrote: > http://monkeytenniscentre.blogspot.com/2008/03/bbc-accuses-bush-of-claiming-victory.html > The BBC accuses Bush of 'claiming victory' in Iraq again. He didn't. > ..... > If read the speech, however - I happened to see the excerpt in question on > Hugh Hewitt's blog - you'll find that Bush didn't say that at all. (If you > don't want to read the whole thing use your browser's 'Find' field to search > for 'victory' â it's the first instance.) > > What he said was the following: > > The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around â it has > opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror. > > Bush didn't say the surge had 'brought about' a strategic victory, he said > they had 'opened the door' to it. He was saying that the surge has paved the > way for a victory over Al Qaeda; he did not say the victory had been achieved. > .... > > So basically the BBC reported the news the way they wanted to, not the way it > was. Truth in media > >
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