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Entries from August 2007

Bill Moyers Journal: Iraq

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge

August 24, 2007
Bill Moyers Clip File

BILL MOYERS: We’re launching a new feature on THE JOURNAL this week. We call it our clip file — stories we collect that may have fallen through the cracks or disappeared under the avalanche of information that falls on all of us every day. We begin with the war in [...]

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Iraq Timeline: The Broken Record on “The Next Few Months” or “How The Friedman Units” Will Never End

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge, Videos, War

“This material [article] was created by the Center for American Progress” (online)
August 8, 2007

The Bush administration as well as supporters and some critics of the Bush Iraq strategy have told Americans time and again during the past four years that the “next few months” in Iraq will be the “decisive, critical period” of the war—the [...]

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“The Lost Year” by Dan Froomkin, The Washington Post

August 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge, War

“A new national intelligence estimate concludes that President Bush’s troop surge shows no signs of accomplishing its goal of encouraging political reconciliation in Iraq.”
“And now it appears that the only thing the surge has bought him is time — nine months or maybe a year, during which he was able to postpone the inevitable.”
“What has [...]

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The Conditions Of the Petraeus Iraq Report (or) How Bush is Taking Us Down Alice in Wonderlands Rabbit Hole

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge, Videos, War

Sixteen years on Face The Nation has taught me one thing: When I ask a question and guests start laying out conditions such as “first let me tell you,” or “the real questions is,” or “it is important to put that in context,” I know we’re headed down the old rabbit trail that will take [...]

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Whose Report Is It, Anyway?

August 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge, War

The “Petraeus Report” — the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David H. [tag]Petraeus[/tag] and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker — is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.
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Bryan Young: Tony Snow’s September 1, 2007 Press Briefing

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Impeach Bush, Iraq, Surge, War

MR. SNOW: ..And with that I’ll open the floor for questions.
Q: Here we are, the first day of September and this was the month we were given to look at progress on the surge, and now that it’s September, does the White House feel the surge is working?
MR. SNOW: Well, first of all, I’m not [...]

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