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Under a headline that would be absurdist if it weren't so somber -- "What Defines a Killing as Sectarian?" -- the Washington Post exposes the troubles in calculating whether we are in fact making any progress in Iraq...and what the...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 25, 2007 9:38 AM

Tags: David Petraeus Iraq sectarian violence
"Funding All Sides of this Sectarian War"

Progress in Iraq? From an interview on Alternet today: There have been a lot of reports about the fact that the people who the U.S. is working with, the supposed "freedom fighters," the "counter-insurgents" are former insurgents. They were Iraqi...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 18, 2007 3:00 PM

Tags: Alternet David Petraeus Iraq Rick Rowley
Dose of Durst

The President said General Petraeus's testimony wasn't a sideshow. Would have been more believable if he hadn't been munching on cotton candy at the time....

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 13, 2007 12:06 PM

Tags: David Petraeus Durst humor Iraq
The Petraeus Conundrum

Two days ago MoveOn ran its now infamously controversial ad anticipating the Petraeus testimony to Congress. At the time, I praised them for the guts to pick that fight. I have become increasingly frustrated, if not disgusted, with the Congress...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 12, 2007 6:10 AM

Tags: David Petraeus moveon
Fine With Feingold

I'd wear a button that announced, "I'm fine with Feingold." After all, his question of Petraeus was honest and smart and inspired. And it only took him 35 seconds to call the Iraq War the greatest mistake in the battle...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 11, 2007 2:00 PM

Tags: David Petraeus Russ Feingold video
Stop. Stop. Stop.

A new site called Stop The DC Establishment has been set up by our friends at OpenLeft and FireDogLake to tell the Beltway boys and girls to stop giving David Petraeus -- who has a history of wrong predictions about...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 11, 2007 12:15 PM

Tags: David Petraeus Glenn Greenwald Iraq video
"Here's the Reality"

Another organization anticipating the Petraeus report is the National Security Network that put out a short video of experts discussing the reality of the situation in Iraq. If a victim is shot in the face it's classified differently than if...

Posted by Justin Krebs on September 10, 2007 9:19 AM

Tags: David Petraeus National Security Network

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