ipsnews.net - 2/10/2009
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Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (IPS) - The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David ...
amazon.com - 2/10/2009
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Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, February
2009 : Anyone who read Fiasco , Thomas E....
Ricks's superb, bestselling account of the Iraq War through 2005, and has followed the war since has likely noticed that many of the heroes of that ...
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The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American ...
armedservices.house.gov - 2/13/2009
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Hearing Information 2009 - 2010 Thursday, February 12,
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The Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will meet to receive testimony on Strategies for Countering Violent Extremist Ideologies. · ...
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frcblog.com - 2/5/2009
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POSITION: DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE: David Ogden
Born: November 12, 1953 Family: Wife, Anne Harkavy, and...
three children. Occupation: partner at the Washington, D.C. firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, co-running the firm's ...
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Change Watch Backgrounder: David Ogden
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General Petraeus Springs A Leak
Firedoglake —
... to undercut President Obama and his plans to withdrawal from Iraq. As before, IPS’s Gareth Porter is the one breaking the news –and his latest story is stunning. ...
COIN: Colonialism By Another Name?
Newshoggers.com —
... sure they want to stand up and tell their readers they're advocating generations-long occupations? Because they certainly haven't done so to date. Instead, they're so happy with their new military friends that they haven't noticed they're being spun into turning a blind eye to Petraeus, Keane and Co's deliberate undermining of President Obama's withdrawal timetable in Iraq - a withdrawal timetable that is (even after it has been tweaked) too much at odds with the perpetual, blood and treasure draining, colonialist COIN strategy the military and liberal hawks are ...
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Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans
antiwar.com 2/12/2009 — Excerpt: The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus -- and a firm denial by a White House official ...
Petraeus in '12?
mudvillegazette.com 3/23/2009 — Andrew Breitbart votes "yes" : The last time I felt this hopeless was when the Democratic Party and its cohorts in the media sold us on the false premise that we lost the war in Iraq. In the process, they also sought to demonize the very man that led us out of our peril.
His name is Gen. ...
President Petraeus?
pundits.thehill.com 2/3/2009 — The Republicans’ prospects for 2012 are pretty grim. A new Rasmussen poll shows that 55 percent of them think the party should become more like Sarah Palin. Her star continues to shine brightly in Republican circles, while most of the country doesn't ...
David Petraeus to visit Iowa
tigerhawk.blogspot.com 3/15/2009 — General David Petraeus (generously posing at right with Your Blogger outside McCosh 50 a few years ago) is going to visit Iowa, and not to go on RAGBRAI, visit the Amana Colonies, or enjoy the benefits of honest state government. No, he is going to ...
Good News!... Petraeus Planning 2010 Visit to Iowa
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 3/15/2009 — This ought to shake things up. Look for the liberal media attacks on General Petraeus to begin any day now. It is being reported that General Petraeus is not impressed with the liberal president Obama's war strategy. Of course, this is ...
Petraeus '12 | The American Prospect
prospect.org 3/30/2009 — The world -- at least the world of the U.S. military -- is General David Petraeus' oyster. Nearly a year after Petraeus assumed command of Multinational Force-Iraq, as the military command in Baghdad is known, violence is ebbing back up , sectarian ...
Obama, Petraeus on Collision Course?
powerlineblog.com 2/3/2009 — That's what Gareth Porter if the Inter Press Service says:
CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to ...
Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision
antiwar.com 2/12/2009 — Excerpt: CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an ...
Bush says Petraeus is boss on Iraq
nydailynews.com 2/17/2009 — DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, April 11th 2008, 4:00 AM WASHINGTON - President Bush on Thursday ceded to Gen. David Petraeus the responsibility to decide on troop levels and strategy in Iraq for the remainder of his term in office. "I've told him ...
2012 Watch: Petraeus NOT going to Iowa
briefingroom.thehill.com 3/15/2009 — Contrary to a report on the Weekly Standard today (and that I highlighted here), Gen. David Petraeus is not speaking at the University of Iowa's graduation in 2010.
This statement from US Central Command just landed in my inbox (and, believe me, an ...
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