Bush To Address Nation On Iraq
Success thus far will obviously be the highlight. The Dems will continue their investment in defeat and will thusly badger Petraeus. The principle point of the speech is a defensive manuever against the Dems noise…
From The Swamp:
The president also will be making an address on the war later this week – on Thursday – following the Capitol Hill testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on Tuesday. Petraeus, maintaining that the president’s “surge’’ of forces has worked, is expected to recommend a pause in any further draw-downs after the roughly 21,000 surge forces are withdrawn by this summer.
“It’s hard to deny that there has been great success,’’ Fratto said today. “No one ever made the claim that the surge was going to wipe out violence 100 percent… but provide certain security so Iraqi officials could make the economic and political reforms for the lives of the Iraqis that we all want to see. … There’s no question that the surge has placed Iraq in a better place to do that.’’
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