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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“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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“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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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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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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[tags]Iraq, Surge, War, Impeach Bush[/tags]

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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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