The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to advise President Bush to reduce the U.S. force in Iraq next year by almost half, potentially creating a rift with top White House officials and other military commanders over the course of the war.
Administration and military officials say Marine Gen. Peter Pace is likely to convey concerns by the Joint Chiefs that keeping well in excess of 100,000 troops in Iraq through 2008 will severely strain the military. This assessment could collide with one being prepared by the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, calling for the U.S. to maintain higher troop levels for 2008 and beyond.
So what do we do here? Pick sides?
Are Fox News and Blogs for Bush going to pump up the Petraeus report, while CNN, MSNBC, and the liberal blogs embrace the Joint Chief of Staffs recommendations?
As you can see in this YouTube clip with O'Reilly and Bill Maher, Fox News is really pushing the Petraeus report and trying to diminish the importance of anybody's opinion who might be less then convinced by it.
You know when you see Fox News or the administration pinning all of their hopes on a report you just know the fix is in. These guys are really getting extremely clumsy. I mean Roves only been out of the office for a week.
Bill Maher is back tonight- 11pm HBO...
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( okay the handicapped word verification now looks like it is Farsi...this is killing me...try number 3...)
BTW he rocked...even though there wre too many teh problems ....( I thought it was just here- due to the storms)....and Tim Robbins..well he smoked...
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