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Monday, July 30, 2007 12:00 AM

The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts O'Hanlon and Pollack

Like most liberal "war hawks," the Brookings "scholars" falsely pretend that they were critics of the Iraq strategy to save their own reputations.

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  • Monday, July 30, 2007 03:40 PM

    O'Hanlon and Pollack in the news

    Both of them were on CBS Nightly News tonight, referred to as former critics of the Iraq war who're now seeing progress in the wake of the surge. Pollack had a couple of headshot sound bites, and O'Hanlon had one. Are they coming out with a book or something?

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