Petraeus is a company man - would anyone really expect him to do anything but issue rosy reports for his bosses? How many generals were fired before they found someone compliant? How long would he last if he came up with a negative report?

PR-wise we can expect stories about how great everything is progressing and that the Iraqis who left their country alive want to return very soon because life is so good in Iraq? What about the others who can’t leave and want to even though life is so good now?

Gen Petraeus may be a good officer, but is this surge and the new tactics he wants to use just more spin and tragic wasted effort?

With the Bush-Cheney administration, things are never what they seem. Spin, deception and lies and the norm.

There are many neocons, chicken hawks and war-profiteers who want the war to go on and on, and they will feed the American people and the international community disinformation and lies.

For more on this, see:

“Mind Wars: Americans, global community are targets of deception on Iraq, threats to peace”

By Steve Hammons
Columnist, PopulistAmerica.com
Populist Party of America
October 5, 2006

http://www.populistamerica.com/mind_wars

It’s bally-hoo in Baghdad !

Excuse me, I’ll believe it, when we leave it.

Are you a daydreamer or a wet dreamer, General ?