General Ricardo Sanchez

Talk about selective reporting. Yesterday, General Ricardo Sanchez, who was in charge of the Iraq war in 2003, gave a speech yesterday which was a pretty scathing review of the MSM. Pat Dollard has the details in his post General Accuses MSM Of Killing Soldiers, Enemy Propaganda - MSM Censors Him

• The Washington Post, the AP and others were brutally attacked yesterday by retired General Ricardo Sanchez. He accused them and their political masters of de facto treason, functioning not as journalists, but as lying propagandists bent on advancing Democrat Party power.

Reuters has it's cherry picked version up called Leadership dooms Iraq strategy: ex-commander

• WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A "catastrophic failure" in the Bush administration's leadership of the Iraq war has mired the United States in a nightmarish conflict with no clear way out, the former top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Friday.
  

To understand how the MSM inaccurately reports you only need to go to Pat Dollard's site and click the link to the full text of the speech by General Sanchez. Reuters seems to have conveniently missed the part where General Sanchez states "YOUR UNWILLINGNESS TO ACCURATELY AND PROMINENTLY CORRECT YOUR MISTAKES AND YOUR AGENDA DRIVEN BIASES CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT. ALL OF THESE CHALLENGES COMBINED CREATE A MEDIA ENVIRONMENT THAT DOES A TREMENDOUS DISSERVICE TO AMERICA. OVER THE COURSE OF THIS WAR TACTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT EVENTS HAVE BECOME STRATEGIC DEFEATS FOR AMERICA BECAUSE OF THE TREMENDOUS POWER AND IMPACT OF THE MEDIA AND BY EXTENSION YOU THE JOURNALIST."

Also, Deebow over at BlackFive has OK, This... Has.... Got.... To.... Stop.... where he has some valid points about General Sanchez and the fact that he hasn't been in Iraq in years, so most likely doesn't have any up to date information to formulate his opinion on.

• I am approaching the point of having had it up to here (I am holding my hand next to my forehead) with retired generals who now get critical of the war effort.

  Especially from a guy who was actually running the show in Iraq.