Using reserve officers to promote White House policy

There is a much larger and more overt example of using the military for pro-surge propaganda below, but in some ways, I find Tony Snow and the White House Press Office mining for surge proponents among the Reserve Officers Association (retired from active duty) much more creepy.

(And, of course, the AEI is setting up its own propaganda surge.)

Against all this, what chance does the truth have? (NYTimes)

The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate has effectively discredited the dominant American hypothesis of the past seven months: that safer streets, secured by additional troops, would create enough political calm for Iraq's leaders to reconcile.

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