Everything His President Wants to Hear

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Violence goes up...we must "stay the course".
Violence goes down...we must "stay the course".

Either way...have you noticed that?

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Everything His President Wants to Hear
Posted on Apr 8, 2008

By Robert Scheer

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...There is no evidence of political progress to support Petraeus’ stab at optimism over the “fragile” situation in Iraq. Most absurd was the suggestion that the problem would all go away if Iran would only behave, when in fact American troops are being sacrificed on the pro-Iranian side of an internal Shiite power dispute. The Shiites in charge of “our” government in Iraq were exiles trained for decades in Iran.

Not so Moqtada al-Sadr, who stayed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the killer of his father. Sadr now opposes what he clearly labels as the U.S. occupation out of an Iraqi nationalism that is also in conflict with Iran. Now he’s the bad guy, and the Sunnis, who hate us even more, are being temporarily paid off by the United States to stop killing Americans. They, too, will turn against us, but it will not stop Petraeus or some other general in charge from telling Congress a few months from now what the president wants lawmakers to hear.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080409_everything_his_president_wants_to_hear/


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