Are you kidding me? Fair and balanced, like Fox.
Karl is going to Texas to cram to get it done.

Did we really expect anything different? No! All the accusations about Congress running the war from DC are now exposed. Therefore, Congress can now say, without impunity, that any more funding for Iraq will be tied to redeployment/withdrawal specifics.

Nice going Commanders-in-Chiefs, just keep bouncing off your walls while blindly walking around your office.

If you don't plan to exit then you don't need an exit plan. It's that simple.

It sounds like the White House has already written it.

This has to be the most convoluted reasoning ever used by a failed Commander-in-Chief to back out of a military surge without admitting it never was necessary in the first place...but that's our Bush.

Petraeus says he will propose troop cuts

By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday he was preparing recommendations on troop cuts before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress, and believes the U.S. footprint in Iraq will have to be "a good bit smaller" by next summer.

But he cautioned against a quick or significant U.S. withdrawal that could surrender "the gains we have fought so hard to achieve."

Gen. David Petraeus said the "horrific and indiscriminate attacks" that killed at least 250 Yazidis, an ancient religious sect, in northwestern Iraq Tuesday night were the work of al-Qaida in Iraq. That would bolster his argument, he said, against too quickly drawing down the 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed in the first half of the year...

//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_petraeus

What was accomplished? He can only point to....?
He now wants to draw back because....?

It's important not to leave Iraq too quickly because...? Because there will be more attacks like the one that just killed 250 Yazidis? Why did it happen if the surge was working so well?

Petraus is full of it. This surge was politically engineered to give the White House more time to get their exit strategy in line....and apparently they have done another "heck of a job".

We now have another previously secure section of Iraq is total disarray. The secured South is showing signs of similar insecurity.

Tell the truth, Petra us. Bush needed time and you sacrificed what little stability Iraq still processed...pushing the insurgents from Anbar and Baghdad to new areas in Iraq.

So now the strategy is to blame the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces for Petraus' failed surge? That's quite a jump in logic...but not for these neocon wingnuts.

Good grief. Why don't they just blame it on Hugo Chavez and Castro, so they can bomb them, too, while they're at it?