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[TheMercenary]

"The war's not over, but signs are the tide is turning

MEMO to ABC's Media Watch: Iraq is now "the good news story". The judgment comes not from the Pentagon, but from some of the war's fiercest critics, including The Guardian. This week, the British daily ran two reports describing how "hopes of a remarkable recovery are rising" and noting that Iraqis were "taking back the streets". When The Australian's political editor, Dennis Shanahan, reported from Iraq at the end of August that the Commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, would tell Congress that the troop surge was working, Media Watch accused him of being a "Coalition barracker". In fact, the surge was already having an impact and creating a more favourable sentiment by the US public to the war. Though the accuracy of his report was later confirmed, Media Watch had no qualms about using post-dated articles in an attempt to discredit Shanahan and this newspaper for its allegedly partisan reporting. "

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...-16382,00.html