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The American Conservative
by Jeff Huber

08/06/09

U.S. Army Col. Timothy R. Reese says it’s time for the U.S. to ‘declare victory’ in Iraq and ‘go home.’ It was time to declare victory and go home in January 2007, when the Bush administration decided to ignore the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group and charged off on its cockamamie ’surge’ strategy. The original stated objective of the surge was political reconciliation in Iraq. By September 2007, when it was clear that the political objective was not in sight, Gen. David Petraeus pulled a bait-and-switch and announced that the military objectives of the surge were being met. Petraeus hagiographer Thomas E. Ricks slipped Freudian in February 2009 when he confessed that Petraeus’s goal was never to end the Iraq conflict but to trick Congress and the American public into extending it indefinitely by achieving short-term results though bribing Iraq’s militias...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/perpetual/


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