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White House does best to undermine public confidence in own strategy

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I’m quite prepared to believe there has been some military progress in Iraq and that it might be possible for the US to move some troops from some areas to others where they could be more profitably engaged. But I’d be much more comfortable taking General David Petraeus’s report at face value if the Los Angeles Times were not reporting

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