And what does that make them?

In articles on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, several media outlets reported that Clinton said the Bush administration’s so-called “surge” policy is “working.” Clinton actually said: “We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas — particularly in Al Anbar Province — it’s working. We’re just years too late changing our tactics.”

During an August 20 speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) said, according to The New York Times in an August 21 article, “We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar Province, it’s working. … We’re just years too late changing our tactics. We can’t ever let that happen again.” The Times also reported that “[a]ides to Mrs. Clinton said her remarks that military tactics in Iraq are ‘working’ referred specifically to reports of increased cooperation from Sunnis leading to greater success against insurgents in Al Anbar Province.” Several other media outlets, however, have claimed that Clinton said the Bush administration’s so-called “surge” policy is “working”:

During an August 21 report on Democrats’ positions on Iraq, an MSNBC Live on-air graphic read: “Hillary Clinton: Surge is Working, But Years Too Late For Change” — even though the video clip of Clinton MSNBC aired during the segment itself showed her saying: “We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some places — particularly in Al Anbar Province — it’s working.”
In an August 21 article — headlined, “Iraq Surge Working, But Too Late: Hillary Clinton” — the New York Post reported: ” ‘It’s working. We’re just years too late in our tactics,’ [Clinton] said, referring to the beefed-up U.S. troop presence battling insurgents in Iraq, including war-torn Anbar province.” The Post further asserted that “Clinton’s positive assessment of the troop surge puts her in agreement with some high-ranking military officials and scholars, but in direct opposition to many fellow Democrats.” But Clinton did not give a “positive assessment of the troop surge,” and her statement was not in reference to “Iraq, including the war-torn Anbar province”; rather, she cited Al Anbar as one place where the “change [of] tactics” has brought positive results.
On August 21, a banner headline on the Drudge Report read: “Hillary on Surge? ‘It’s Working’ …”

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