From Josh Marshall:
The Facts On the Ground
Tonight at 9 p.m. ET President Bush will address the nation in response to this week's congressional testimony by Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker and triumphantly announce the withdrawal of some 30,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by next summer. Call it a cold hunch, but we have a feeling he will link the drawdown directly to "progress on the ground," or "facts on the ground," possibly "signs of success on the ground." Something to do with the ground. But what's the real story behind the troop withdrawal? In today's episode of TPMtv we attempt to preemptively inoculate you against the President's spin by watching the administration getting its story straight in real time, with a little help from Press Secretary Tony Snow, who delivered a magisterial performance in his final televised press briefing ...
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Petraeus has great ambition to be President. So it makes since why he would lie for the White House. Yes he hopes to get the Bush base and with the right tricks and crimes he will be the next President. Yes he will continue the work of Bush/Cheney as to steal Iraq oil while using his past honesty as a front. Now the big losers are the soldiers who have no leader who will protect them. Petraeus is a sell out soldier for his own personal
ambition. Some people will do anything to get what they wont even at the cost of so many lies being lost.
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