No Big Shifts Planned After Report on Iraq - WaPo - Petreaus in September is all bullshit

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White House Senses Recent Political Gains

CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 24 -- Despite political pressure for a change of course in Iraq, the White House hopes to keep in place its existing military strategy and troop levels there after the mid-September report from Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, administration officials said.

Even as the administration faced a new call this week from Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), a leading ally, to begin at least a symbolic withdrawal of troops by Christmas, White House officials said privately that they are not contemplating making major shifts before early next year. They said that next month's report is likely to highlight what they see as significant improvements in security over the past year and that they expect the president to assert that now is not the time to dramatically change approaches.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082402039.html?hpid=topnews

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1. We saw this coming. Now we have to make sure that everyone

knows that we know. Freidman Units forever into the future await us if America doesn't get well and truly FED UP with this crap!

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2. How many times can they con us? How many times will they get away with it?