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Colin Powell Deflates McCain’s Iraq Strategy

Dec 18, 2006
Colin Powell, who's been on something of a credibility campaign since that vaudevillian performance at the United Nations, took John McCain's "troop surge" Iraq strategy to task on Sunday: "Let's be clear about something else that gets a little confusing There are really no additional troops".
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Top General Wants Bigger Army

Dec 15, 2006
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker has testified that his force "will break" without an increase in troops and greater ability to draw on Army National Guard and Reserve units. The general cited the strain of commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he told reporters: "We would not surge [in Iraq] without a purpose. And that purpose should be measurable."

‘What [Bush] Needs Is a Therapist’

Dec 15, 2006
Appearing on "The Daily Show," Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International, said Bush still believes his policy is working in Iraq and suggested that the president may be the last neoconservative left in power. When asked by Jon Stewart what role the president's advisors might be able to play, Zakaria responded: "Without being flippant, I think maybe what [Bush] needs is a therapist."

Tony Snow Gets Busted

Dec 14, 2006
AlterNet caught White House press secretary Tony Snow spinning his icy heart out, only to get nailed the next day by CBS' Bob Schieffer: "I think the reason the president [has] put [announcing his new Iraq strategy] off is he just hasn't decided at this point what he wants to do, and I don't think it's any more complicated than that."

Bush Stalls on New Strategy

Dec 13, 2006
The president has delayed a speech announcing possible changes in his Iraq strategy because, according to White House press secretary Tony Snow, he didn't feel it was ready. Snow was careful to say that didn't mean Bush was planning last-minute changes. Does that mean an ineffective strategy should remain in place, with the death toll mounting, because the rhetoric needs work?

Durst on Bush’s Reading Habits

Dec 12, 2006
Columnist and comedian Will Durst explores the irony of delivering a report to a president who doesn't read. Of the Iraq Study Group's 79 recommendations, Durst writes: "Unfortunately none of them involved the President and his entire Cabinet resigning, proving perhaps this study group should've studied more."

Feingold: Iraq Report a ‘Washington Inside Job’

Dec 9, 2006
Sen Russ Feingold critiques the Iraq Study Group report and argues for a more holistic approach to counter-terrorism: "The Iraq Study Group essentially sees Iraq the same way that most of official Washington does -- as the be-all and end-all of our foreign and national security policy Nothing could be further from the truth".