Wow. It didn't take long for General Petraeus to become the political pawn of the Bush team. Think Progress documents his backsliding on the "surge" -- and they have video:
In April, during the congressional debate over war funding, Gen. David Petraeus pushed back against a withdrawal timeline from Iraq “because we’re only about two months into the surge,” assuring Congress that he would be able to report on progress in September:You've already had a few months. The only thing surging is the death toll.We’re only about two months into the surge. We won’t have all the forces on the ground until mid-June and I pointed that out to them, and noted that Ambassador Crocker and I would be doing an assessment in early September and provide that to our respective bosses at that time.But now that the debate on timelines has passed, Petraeus is asking for even more time. Today in an interview with Lara Logan of CBS News, Petraeus tried to argue that the surge hasn’t even started yet:We haven’t started the surge — the full surge — yet. So let me have a few months.
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