Saturday, August 11, 2007

Not your Blogging Tory news: Aug 11, 2007.


So ... how's that "surge" going? Uh oh ...

Rep. Schakowsky: Petraeus hints at decade-long Iraq presence
By Patrick Fitzgerald
August 10, 2007


Gen. David Petraeus told a congressional delegation visiting the Middle East that success in Iraq will require a U.S. military presence there for about a decade, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said Friday.

The commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, who will deliver a highly anticipated progress report next month, said the U.S. “will be in Iraq in some way for 9 or 10 years,” according to Schakowsky.

This would be a definition of "surge" with which I am unfamiliar. Apparently, looting a country of all of its natural resources isn't something that just happens overnight.

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