Nothing on CNN or NYT websites about the withdrawal...

[hlthe2b]

Is NBC-MSNBC really the only media covering this?!

[xultar]

1. Probably because it isn't a withdrawal.

That's the first thing that comes to mind.

[hlthe2b]

8. As close as we are going to get...

and I can't look upon that as a bad thing...

[xultar]

9. You are right. I didn't intend for people to think it was bad.

But I did want people to see it for what it really is.

[malaise]

2. Yep

Not even BBC

[mfcorey1]

3. They are pissed and jealous that they are not the ones who are embedded with the troops.

[SeattleGirl]

4. It's on MSNBC. n/t

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes.. that's the point. Is no one else covering?

[blogslut]

6. Yes

They got the scoop. Rachel mentioned in her report that this was an exclusive.

[activa8tr]

7. The withdrawal is "liberal propaganda" to the Corporate media.

They don't care about 4400 plus dead Americans, they care about the bottom line of profit.

[valerief]

10. America's biggest industry is WAR. Winding down a war is industrial failure. nt

[Imajika]

11. When you leave 50k or so troops behind...

...it is difficult to take calling it a "withdrawal" too terribly seriously.

It is good news, but with that many military forces remaining I just wonder how impressed people are going to be with this.

[hlthe2b]

12. You'd prefer to see them stay?

No, of course not. At least it is some sense of progress.