Meet the Press panelists did not mention reports rebutting Engel's claim that troops would be "furious" in event of troop draw down

Published: August 26, 2007, 5:22 pm

Tags: tim russert, meet the press, nbc, national security foreign policy, war in iraq

On the August 26 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, during a panel discussion on the war in Iraq, host and NBC News Washington bureau chief Tim Russert did not challenge colleague Richard Engel's assertion that "if you pull back the troops, the troops themselves are going to be furious. They have done so much and worked so hard and sacrificed so much that if you start pulling them back because of political debates and domestic pressure in the United States, they're going to be livid." Engel, NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief, added: "They're not going to thank the Americans, and they're probably going to end up blaming Democrats, who said, 'We never got a chance to complete the mission and all of our hard work hasn't been accomplished.' " He concluded: "[T]here's a real risk, if you ... draw the troops down and don't give them a new mission, that they're going to feel that they were just used and

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