The Iraq Study Group came out with their report this morning. The President had a live press conference at 8am (ha ha i dont think thats ever happened) to comment on it (I suspect it was that early so nobody would be watching, he doesnt want the report out.)
Anyway the media immediately put articles out about it. Now, the report itself is 160 pages, but the text only takes up a small amount so its probably only like 80 pages. So I imagine that *some* of the people who wrote articles on it actually read it, but I suspect it wasnt a critical reading, they just wanted to find quotes and then write on those. Point in case:
The first *sentence* of the whole report: "There is no magic formula to solve the problems of Iraq." if you go to Yahoo.com (its 1:00pm right now) the news headling is this: "'No magic formula' for Iraq."
Anyone who's ever written a book report on a book they didn't read knows the tricks. Don't fool yourself into thinking journalists are somehow above that. They have deadlines too, and they also have a very low bar to jump.
So I printed the whole report off the internet <http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html>.
You can also buy the book if you want (its like 10 bucks, and a PORTION of the proceeds will go to a military families charity).
OR if you dont want to read it and dont trust the media, you can wait til later in the day for me to write up a review. Im going to get an iced coffee right now and read it on my lunch break. Will have a post about it by tonight.
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