The Iraqi government is throwing Fox News out of Iraq, apparently in retaliation for the U.S. government’s expulsion of a correspondent for the Iraqi News Agency (INA) for engaging in actions “harmful to U.S. interests.”
Since the INA is owned and operated by the Iraqi government, it would seem that the more logical form of retaliation would be the usual one — the expulsion of U.S. government officials rather than American private citizens.
In view of Fox News’s “fair and balanced coverage,” however, which favors the U.S. government’s position on Iraq and includes many U.S. army generals who are invited to appear and offer their “objective” viewpoints in favor of invading Iraq, perhaps the Iraqi government can be forgiven for assuming that Bill O’Reilly and the other Fox correspondents actually work for the U.S. government.