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The Push to Keep Us in Iraq

While all of the momentum at the grassroots/public opinion level has been geared towards getting US troops out of Iraq and even Congress has made half-hearted efforts even if those efforts overlooked better options.

Something that has not been seen, at least outside of the Bush Administration, is the "hey, we're winning the war" attitude that was so prevalent in the early days of the invasion. That changed recently when supposed "Iraq experts" and supposed "critics of the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq" O'Hanlon and Pollack wrote an article appearing in the New York Times making the case that we "just might win" in Iraq.

Of course, as Glenn Greenwald documents so well, these two were cheerleaders for the invasion and did not criticize the Administration until nearly everyone had left the pro-war bandwagon. And, of course it is worth pointing out that the supposedly liberal Times itself was a big backer of the war and that publication only began sniping at the Administration when the war was clearly going poorly.

When it comes to foreign policy, the "establishment" unites. Hopefully the continued pressure being put on Congress by the American people can get our troops home in a timely fashion -- without them going through Iran first.

Posted by Paul Gessing on August 2, 2007 12:56 AM |

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