Defending claim that Clinton said surge was "working," Union-Leader editorial page editor provided evidence to the contrary |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 3:41 pm |
| Tags: 2008 elections, government elections, hillary clinton, media, media responses, national security foreign policy, war in iraq |
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In an August 28 post on his official blog, Manchester Union Leader editorial page editor Drew Cline, responding to Media Matters for America's criticism of an August 24 Union Leader editorial, defended the editorial's statement that Democratic presidential candidate "Hillary Clinton said Gen. David Petraeus' troop surge is working." As Cline noted, in an August 20 speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Clinton said, "We've begun to change tactics in Iraq and in some areas, particularly in Al-Anbar province, it's working. We're just years too late changing our tactics. We can't ever let that happen again." Quoting the headline of the Media Matters item, Cline wrote that, "Media Muddles claimed breathlessly: 'Union Leader editorial falsely claimed Clinton said "troop surge in Iraq is working." ' " But, Cline asserted, "[W]e're right and they're wrong. ... Media Muddles preposterously asserts that when Clinton said 'change [ Full article ] |
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