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Crocker Vastly Overstates Progress On Iraq Benchmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Earlier this morning, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) took time out from the rigors of their Iraq War hearings to play a little...

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Pickett's Surge

Chip Collis | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home

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Petraeus says The Surge is so successful that US troops must remain in Iraq indefinitely. Combat deaths now near the numbers the Confederate Army lost at Gettysburg. Is Petraeus our Gen. Lee?

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Petraeus in 2003: "Tell Me How This Ends" -- and He Still Doesn't Know

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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What will end up being the most famous quote of the Iraq war? I have come to believe that it might be Gen. Petraeus' once-obscure 2003 remark: "Tell me how this ends."

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Petraeus Testimony: Summing Up Today's Hearing on Iraq (Update)

Max Bergmann | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Petraeus and Crocker tell us they can't make predictions into the future, but they have no problem making scary predictions about what will happen if we withdraw.

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Evan Bayh Cautions: Don't 'Take Marching Orders From Osama bin Laden'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Soft-spoken Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) may have been the last questioner of this morning's hearings on Iraq, but he ended up being a highlight of the he...

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"Crocker-Speak," on Iraq, September 12, 2007

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Crocker could have saved a lot of time by just resubmitting last September's testimony to the Senate today instead of wasting precious fuel at taxpayer expense to only to say exactly the same things.

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The Pet Iraq

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Just give us our symbols and our slogans and we'll be happy. Meanwhile, it won't matter what's really going on over there. What matters is what we're told is going on over there.

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Petraeus Iraq Hearings Videos: David Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, John McCain And Carl Levin

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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***LAST UPDATED 4/9 11:44am*** ***Click Here For Updates On The Iraq Hearings*** --- General David Petraeus' Testimony Before House Members, Part 1...

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Lieberman Tells Petraeus: Iraq Has Shown 'More Political Progress' Than America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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If President Bush's Iraq Wwar were a fine wine, it would have no more fawning a sommelier than Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. Lieberman was in ty...

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General Petraeus Iraq Hearings: Updates Here

Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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***LAST UPDATED 4/9 1:17pm*** Click Here For Videos Of The Hearings --- Petraeus Won't Say He'd Advise New President On Withdrawal: Spencer Ackerman...

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Obama Slams McCain, Iraq Strategy On Today

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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This morning on Today, Barack Obama offered a vigorous defense of his troop withdrawal proposal, as well as a critique of the administration's Iraq Wa...

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General Won't Promise More Iraq Pullouts

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress Tuesday that hard-won gains in the war zone are too fragile to promise any troop pullo...

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Bagwan Petraeus Returns

Stan Goff | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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We are still in Wonderland. The only viable "exit strategy" for Iraq is to lead every last American troop and mercenary and war profiteer onto ships and airplanes and bring them home now.

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Cashing in on the War on Terror

William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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On the day Petraeus and Crocker testify before Congress on Iraq, the ghost of Dwight D. Eisenhower will be hovering in the wings. And he won't be smiling.

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Democratic Candidates Offer Their Questions for Petraeus

Matt Stoller | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

I've been asking several of the Congressional candidates who endorse the Responsible Plan to end the War what they would ask Petraeus were they in Congress. Here are some of their questions.

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The Only Question For General Petraeus That Might Actually End The War

James Boyce and Paul Abrams | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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The only legislative strategy for the Democrats is to pursue the 'zero option' -- to stop funding the war and to not bring a new funding bill to the table.

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Wall Street Journal Pregames Petraeus, Discounts Dissent

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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On one level, it is fortunate that the Wall Street Journal, a day before General David Petraeus arrives on Capitol Hill to re-engage his attempts to s...

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A Song for Gen. Petraeus

Max and the Marginalized | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Gen. Petraeus will be answering questions on Capitol Hill this week, and since it's the congress and not the press doing the asking, there might even be some hard ones.

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Petraeus' Call for a Pause is Really Just "Stay the Course 2.0"

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Since "stay the course" was 12 slogans ago, the Bush administration had to come up with a new one.

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'Surge' Protectors: The Media's 2nd Greatest Failure

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

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With Petraeus due to testify before Congress on Tuesday, it is worth pointing out that the media, just as in the run-up to the war, is complicit in the "surge" debacle.

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Petraeus Iraq Hearings: General Testifies To Congress

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

McCain Wants To Avoid Looking Like "Eager Cheerleader": The New York Times notes that John McCain "risks looking like an eager cheerleader if he heaps...

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How ABC Landed This Week's David Petraeus Exclusive

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

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The television networks have spent the last few weeks in pursuit of an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus, the United States commander in Iraq, ahe...

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Chris Wallace, Bill Kristol Chat Up An Iraq War Fantasy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

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Today on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace and Bill Kristol had themselves a tidy little conversation on an Iraq War. I say "an" Iraq War, because whate...

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Bush Bypassing Several Levels Of Chain Of Command To Give Petraeus Priveledged Voice On Iraq

Washington Post | Michael Abramowitz | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

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For months, a debate raged at the top levels of the Bush administration over how quickly to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq. But the discussi...

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Petraeus Testimony Field Manual

Spencer Ackerman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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With all the talk about what questions Petraeus is likely to face next week, less attention has been paid to what the general's potential answers could be.

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