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Alright, team, pay no attention to those goalposts being moved:
| quote: | Baghdad – Three months into the job, General David Petraeus says it is difficult to predict how well the surge of troops in Baghdad will succeed before the full number of troops arrive and that he would not have a definitive answer about prospects for stability by September, when he is to report back to Congress.
“I think generally is is still early days. We are literally still just setting the footprint if you will to do what we intend to achieve but until we get all those forces in and have really worked with them for a while I think it’s difficult to see what’s going to happen,” he told me in an interview Tuesday evening.
http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.ph...ce_by_September) |
Compare that to back in late April:
| quote: | “During Secretary Gates' recent visit to Iraq,” Petraeus said, according to a transcript of the April 26 presser, “we agreed that in early September, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and I would provide an assessment of the situation in Iraq with respect to our mission and offer recommendations on the way ahead. We will be forthright in that assessment, as I believe I have been with you today.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecr...r_Congress.html |
So for anyone, including Republicans, trying to set an assessment date in September on Fred Kagan's "SURGE!!!" idea:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050701689.html
well, forget it. Of course we pretty much knew what most war supporters were going to say come September anyway - let's wait a bit longer, say, until Bush is out of office until we make any actual assessment (so we can blame a different President for this fiasco).
What a fucking mess.
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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