It has been remarked elsewhere that the American media has taken a decidedly low key approach to reporting the fact that over half the members of the Iraqi Parliament want a timetable for U.S. withdrawal.
The story leaked out several days ago, but it took the New York Times until this morning to mention it in its print edition. It really is odd that the paper that trumpeted bogus WMD claims on page 1 sees fit to relegate this story to page 6.
I’m only being half sarcastic. At this point it really is odd. With the Bush pre-war justification now exposed as a fraud, and the issue of timetables so much a part of our domestic discourse, isn’t this story critically important? At this point, is it really in the Times interest to keep covering for the Boy King? Isn’t it front page news that the Iraqi Parliament, for whatever reason, agrees with the Democrats? How can we expect to “succeed”, however success is defined at the moment, if the people we are supposedly seeking to help want to see the back of us?
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