General Petraeus R General Betray S?

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GENERAL PETRAEUS R GENERAL BETRAY S?
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General Petraeus s a military an onstantly at ar ith the facts. n 2004, ust before he lection, e said here
was “tangible progress ” in raq and that Iraqi leaders are stepping orward.” And last eek Petraeus, the architect
of the escalation of troops in Iraq,said,“We say we have achieved progress,and we are obviously going to do
everything e can to uild n that rogress. ”
Every independent report on the ground situation in Iraq shows that the surge strategy has failed.Yet the General
claims a reduction in violence.That ’s because,according to the New York Times ,the Pentagon has adopted a bizarre
formula for keeping tabs on violence.For example,deaths by car bombs don ’t count.The Washington Post reported
that assassinations only count if you ’re shot in the back of the head — not the front.According to the Associated
Press, there have been more ivilian deaths nd ore American oldier deaths in the past three months than in any
other summer e ’ve been here. We ’ll hear f neighborhoods where violence as ecreased. But we on ’t ear that
those neighborhoods have een ethnically leansed.
Most importantly,General Petraeus will not admit what everyone knows:Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious
civil war.We may hear of a plan to withdraw a few thousand American troops.But we won ’t hear what Americans are
desperate to hear:a timetable for withdrawing all our troops.General Petraeus has actually said American troops
will need to stay in Iraq for as long as ten years.
Today,before Congress and before the American people,General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.
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