WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq, has told President Bush that he wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year to reduce the risk of military setbacks, but could accept the pullback of roughly 4,000 troops beginning in January....
(Petraeus, Seeing Gains in Iraq as Fragile, Is Wary of Cuts - NYTimes)
What a nice guy that General
It's split-the-baby time in Washington, where they're trying to figure out how to claim the "surge" was a success without having to unsurge. Success is "fragile," after all. And we're not going anywhere, you can count on that.
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