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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (80926)	5/30/2007 4:10:50 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Petraeus Adviser Says Escalation ‘Is Likelier To Fail Than Succeed At This Point’ Over the weekend, Fox News pundit Fred Barnes claimed that in September, Gen. David Petraeus will report “great progress and say [Baghdad] is heavily pacified.” That optimistic assessment is not shared, however, by one of Petraeus’ key advisers. On CBS Evening News last night, Stephen Biddle, an early proponent of the escalation, argued that Bush’s strategy in Iraq is “likelier to fail than succeed at this point.” Biddle assessed that there is “maybe a one in ten” chance the escalation will succeed. “Maybe it’s a one in five longshot, if we play our cards right,” he said.

To: TimF who wrote (80926)	5/30/2007 4:16:41 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Specially for you, here is a priceless photo of Lieberman as he is walking in Iraq thinkprogress.org