AP noted GOP hype of O'Hanlon/Pollack op-ed, ignored U.S. Army servicemen's op-ed in response

SUMMARY: An Associated Press "analysis" of the politics surrounding the Bush administration's upcoming Iraq war progress report noted that Republicans "trumpeted a July 30 op-ed article in the New York Times" by Brookings Institution scholars Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack in favor of continuing the Bush administration's Iraq war escalation. However, the AP did not mention an August 19 Times op-ed by seven U.S. Army infantrymen and noncommissioned officers currently serving in Iraq, in which the authors wrote that "we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political, and social unrest we see every day."

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