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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:00 AM

Petraeus calls for pause in troop drawdown

The New York Times reports that the U.S. commander in Iraq has recommended that the president wait to decide about further withdrawals.
Alex Koppelman

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  • Tuesday, March 25, 2008 07:41 AM

    Patraeus opinion

    is largely influenced by domestic political considerations. I think the Bush Administration would like to hand any incoming Democratic administration a broken military. That way they can spend the next 4 years comfortably criticizing the Dems. You can bet they'd like nothing better than putting the Dems in a position where it is necessary to reinstitute the draft.

    Should the Republicans win the next election, they can use the noise-n-spin machine to confuse the issue and distract our attention to new and scary menaces.

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