Media Attacks War Hero

The Boston Globe criticizes and questions why Bush keeps mentioning Col HR McMaster, lauded in this blog before the President did. It seems the Old media is uncomfortable with success stories from Iraq:

Colonel becomes Bush poster boy
By Nina J. Easton, Globe Staff March 26, 2006
In the brutal world of Washington politics, it pays to keep your friends close -- and your potential critics even closer. Was that President Bush's strategy last week when he repeatedly lauded the work of Colonel H. R. McMaster of the Third Armored Calvary Regiment?

...McMaster also happens to be the author of the award-winning book ''Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam," published in 1997 and still widely read among Pentagon brass. As the title suggests, McMaster's book is a searing account of official deception behind the Vietnam War.
McMaster's position at the heart of the Iraq war begs the question: Does he hold views that will wind up in a similarly critical account of President Bush's war? ''As a trained historian, I'm reluctant to draw parallels," McMaster said in an interview Friday.

Not America's war, but Bush's war. Forget about the media's own poster boy, John Murtha. We must discuss the "President's poster boy". But they support the troops. (Not!)