As Lobby Dick Cheney taught us a while ago, insurgents are in their "last throes" in Iraq. And the US army is winning the war on terror. And Osama bin Laden is about to be "smoked out".
And "the surge" in US troops to Iraq has been a complete success, adds General Petraeus.
What is the outcome of the said "surge", Sarge ?
Baghdad looks a little bit quieter these days, because fewer US troops are killed there these days, not fewer Iraqi civilians.
Baghdad looks a little bit quieter these days, because it is being "pacified". Not by your troops but by the civil and sectarian war you ignited with this invasion. The traditional Sunni-Shi'ite mix belongs to the past, an ugly separation wall to the present, and the partition of Iraq to the future.
Baghdad looks a little bit quieter these days, because the surge helped insurgents to export chaos and terror in parts of the country that had been relatively spared until now. Parts that would have proved useful come the time of reconstruction.
Bush wanted this surge to accelerate the collapse of Iraq and the final destruction of any hope of reconciliation between the parties. And now he is asking for more time to fulfill this agenda.
Bush should be the one to answer the questions, not Petraeus.
Bush should be the one accused of betrayal, not Petraeus*.
* see MoveOn's ad "General Petraeus or General Betray Us ?"
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