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NY Post turns Iraq Study Group into 'surrender monkeys' on front page

Thursday's front page of the New York Post depicts the two chairman of the Iraq Study Group as "surrender monkeys," suggesting that the bipartisan independent panel has urged the U.S. to "give up" and admit defeat in the war in Iraq.

The faces of James Baker, a former chief of staff for President Reagan who led President Bush's recount fight in Florida six years ago, and former Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, who also served as Vice Chair for the 9/11 Commission, were photoshopped on to the bodies of monkeys.

This isn't the first time that the Post has "monkeyed around" with nature to make a political statement on behalf of the Bush Administration.

In February of 2003, just weeks before the invasion of Iraq, the New York City based tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's Fox empire depicted the French and German representatives at the United Nations as half men and weasels. That front page came one month after outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld apologized to the two countries for referring to them as the "Axis of Weasels" because of their staunch opposition to the war, at the time.

"The Iraq Study Group report delivered to President Bush yesterday contains 79 separate recommendations - but not one that explains how American forces can defeat the terrorist insurgents, only ways to bring the troops home," Niles Latham writes in the Post's cover story.

"Declaring the situation 'grave and deteriorating,' the high-powered commission proposed the United States talk directly to terror abettors Iran and Syria to get their cooperation, and commit to removing U.S. combat troops in early 2008," the article continues.

The paper's editorial page also accused the Iraq Study Group of recommending surrender, though "not in so many words, of course."

According to the paper, the ISG "counsels cowardice - and, ultimately, a shameful defeat."

Original article posted here.