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On the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq, President Bush is portraying the war as a necessity
in the news: ABC (KFSN-TV/DT) on March 19, 2007The US military has hand-picked an elite group of Iraq veterans to tour the U.S. making optimistic pitches on the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Some of these veterans blamed the news media for not covering the positive things that are happening in Iraq. Larry Diamond, a former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, says that he understands this standpoint. "You see the good work that is being done and you feel, why aren't Americans being told about this?" Diamond says that is a micro view of some of the good things that are happening, but it must be woven into the overall context of the country which Diamond says is revealed in the latest ABC News poll of Iraqi citizens. "Every single indicator of public opinion in Iraq shows a dramatic decline from two years ago, and let me say, things were not going that swimmingly in 2005."
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