Petraeus Report Was so Much Snake Oil

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America listened and hoped while Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker mouthed beautiful words in the recent congressional hearings, but in the end gave nothing to the people - nothing that shows we have a plan to end the occupation of Iraq.

In an astonishing admission, the ambassador admitted that the surge has not accomplished its goal to begin the political process to make Iraq a vibrant democracy. Instead, he pointed to Anbar province, a province with 2 percent of the population of Iraq, as a great success for tribal cooperation that he hoped will sweep through the country as a bottom-to-top miracle to put Iraq together again. What kind of snake oil is that?

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Petraeus Report Was so Much Snake Oil

Gen. Petraeus showed a chart illustrating how he was go...

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