The White House's Iraq Stats and Reality

Published: September 1, 2007, 2:59 pm

Tags: iraq war, escalation, surge, david petraeus

As BarbinMD and Kevin Drum (via kidneystones) and Juan Cole, the Los Angeles Times and others have been pointing out, we're getting a spew of very suspicious "statistics" in the run-up to General David Petraeus's congressionally required report on the splurge of blood and bucks that Fred Kagan engineered late last year. Engineered (with others, such as retired General Jack Keane) to give the Cheney-Bush administration cover for ignoring 95% of the Iraq Study Group's suggestions for dealing with the debacle Kagan and others helped to create in the first place. Anybody who has followed even cursorily the surge of propaganda that has accompanied the Iraq war and occupation since March 2002 or so (when the war drums got their first public pounding) knew full well we weren't going to get the straight skinny when the time came for an assessment of the administration's latest maneuver. Four years ago, these guys were warning the media not to use the term "insurgent" because, they said,

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