Monday, August 11

CNN: Breaking More News Than It Thought

Today, the 101st Airborne was told it would be staying in Iraq until next spring. CNN's Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr this morning (at 10:15 PT) said that the plan is to let the troops take a two week leave between now and then and return to Iraq. Or as she put it verbatim:

"The General says for the first time he is now going to make an effort to try and let the troops have two weeks leave to come home to the United States from their deployment in Iraq, visit their families, take two weeks off, and then go back to the war."

"Go back to the war"? Didn't the end of the "war" happen when Bush wore his fighter pilot costume on the Lincoln on May 1st? Or is CNN finally starting to report the truth - that the combat simply is not over?