Matthew Yglesias: Hope: The New Plan

[babylonsister]

Hope: The New Plan

10 Sep 2007 02:51 pm

Check out this briefing slide from General Petraeus' presentation:



Basically, the idea is that about nine months from now, we'll be back to the number of troops we had in Iraq about nine months ago. After that, more stuff is supposed to change . . . maybe . . . sometime . . . if all goes well . . . maybe . . . at some point.

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/hope_the_new_plan.php

[whistle]

1. Petraeus qualified this chart when asked just 10 minutes ago

...that the chart is merely for illustration and does not lend itself to any statistical extrapolations :eyes:
In other words, it is comic book material....pure bullshit!:yoiks:

[babylonsister]

2. So it was A-OK until someone called him on it. Typical. nt

[whistle]

3. Well, it is in the 100 page report and it is pure boiler plate with no

...statistical significance....most of the rest of the report will be exposed as much the same, nothing of substance and not a single fact that can be measured....all fluff!

[babylonsister]

5. Except now the network news is swearing what Petraeus said today

as gospel, not one question about any fudging on his part (ABC).

[Solly Mack]

4. faith-based...Bush has the faith that his base will support it