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Petraeus says surge working

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/10/iraq.petraeus/index.html
Well I’ll be damned. He’s saying that his plan is working. Would he want to admit failure? Likely not. Of course, he won’t say when it’s worked well enough that we can leave…
Funny, everyone else over there that’s done research has said it’s failing. Hmm.

Got an extra $145B dollars?

Bush is going to congress soon to ask for an extra ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTY FIVE BILLION dollars so that he can ‘finish’ his War on Iraq/terror. First of all, a guy that already said, “Mission Accomplished” isn’t really trustworthy when nearly four years later still very little productive has been accomplished.
That’s another $483 [...]

Cheney ‘94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN

Holy crap. For anyone saying that the Bush administration didn’t see these problems coming, look at this. WTF?
He explained that killing hussain wasn’t worth more americans dead, and that holding bagdad would have been a mess. Whoa.
Here is the transcript:
Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad?
A: No.
Q: [...]

Cost of War

Look to your right. Ok, not that far to the right. There should be a little bar on the side of this page that has the cost of the war in Iraq currently. Like the Gmail inbox size counter, it keeps going up. However, the size of your inbox approaching 3gb isn’t a bad thing. [...]

Bush compares Iraq to vietnam

Bush again sits himself against the will of the public and says that we need to stay in Iraq, citing that we pulled out of Vietnam too early.
He said, “Unlike in Vietnam, if we were to withdraw before the job was done, this enemy would follow us home.”
Why? Why would the Vietcong not follow us [...]