MSNBC's Shuster misrepresented Clinton's assessment of Anbar

SUMMARY: On Hardball, David Shuster falsely suggested that in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton overlooked local Sunni leaders' cooperation with coalition forces in Al Anbar Province and instead attributed the progress there to President Bush's escalation strategy. However, in the speech, Clinton linked the improvements in Al Anbar to new "tactics" -- not Bush's escalation of the war.

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