Center for American Progress Senior Fellow PJ Crowley offers his thoughts on major points in the forthcoming Baker Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report and the reception awaiting Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates at Congressional hearings next week and he makes some news: the cost of the war in Iraq will DOUBLE to $200 billion 2007.
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It all boils down to what Reagan did in 1988 bowing to pressure from the right: "Abolishing the Fairness Doctrine" which allowed channels like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to exist. 92% of radio talk show hosts are right wing persuasion. Public airwaves belong to the public and the fairness doctrine must be restored. Insist that the presidential candidates promise to restore the fairness doctrine and bust the 5 media monopolies which control our thought process.