Surprise, surprise. The Pentagon and Patraeus don't seem to agree on how things are going in Iraq...
Quarterly Report From The Pentagon
Less than a week after Gen. David Petraeus spun fairy tales for Congress about a successful "surge," the Pentagon has released their quarterly report on Iraq and they seem to have a different story to tell. Security taking a turn for the worse here, increasing violence there, and militias growing influence everywhere. In other words, the same things we've been hearing for the past four years. And now George Bush wants [...]
Confused, yet?
Ilan Goldenberg reads the Pentagon's September report to Congress on stability and security in Iraq and notices something odd: you'd think that the Pentagon's civilian casualty figures (dead and wounded) and Gen. Petraeus's civilian fatality figures would track [...]
UPDATE: Think it's really going swell over there? AMERICAblog reports tonight -
One week after Petraeus says all is well, US bans almost all land travel by American govt. officials in Iraq
Tags: Iraq War, Pentagon Report, Patraeus
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