A surge of phony spin on Iraq
The "surge" was supposed to give Maliki time to get his government in shape. Instead the Sunnis have walked out, five more ministers have skedaddled, and the rest have gone on a month-long vacation.
Bush's backers are peddling a sunny view of the popular war president's strategery -- despite Iraq's political chaos and soaring death counts. As Congress prepared to go on its August recess, Pentagon officials and White House backers were desperately spinning as a success this year's escalation of U.S. troop levels in Iraq...
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