MB Civic

By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 | The Washington Post

‘…It’s clear by now that playing for time is the real White House strategy for Iraq. Everything else is tactical maneuver and rhetorical legerdemain — nothing up my sleeve — with which the administration is buying time, roughly in six-month increments. Appearing before a joint hearing called by the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, Gen. David H. Petraeus probably won the respite Bush wanted when he said that U.S. military objectives “are in large measure being met.”…’…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR2007091002066_pf.html