Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require ''an enormous commitment'' over time by the United States.Speaking as the Senate debated veto-threatened legislation to start bringing home U.S. forces in October, Petraeus called the war there ''the most complex and challenging I have ever seen.''
Petraeus delivered these remarks in the face of congressional votes to set a deadline for the war. It is certainly refreshing to hear someone speaking the truth about what it is going to take. The problem is that it's too late. We were told a pack of lies about why we ought to go into Iraq; we were told an even bigger bushel of lies about how long it would take, how much it would cost, how we would be greeted, whether we had adequate resources to do the job, and what we were there for. And from others in the Administration, particularly the Vice President, the bold-faced lying continues in the face of every fact to the contrary.
The country has had enough of this war and enough of the lies. Petraeus may be a great general, but he is fighting the wrong war on behalf of a profoundly dishonest and inept Administration. It's time to bring the troops home.
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Let's review a little history, shall we, and not forget all those who essentially supported the work in Iraq.
True enough, lots of Dems were just as guilty. But they have seen the error of their ways. And we now know from Tenet and others that the intelligence they were giving to the Administration was not the "slam dunk" we were told it was. They, seeing intelligence that no one else was seeing, didn't care. They took the country to war based on lies. And they are still lying about it. There is a big difference between being wrong and admitting it and being wrong and continuing along the same wrong path.
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