President Bush's top Iraq war commander said yesterday that the surge of 30,000 troops has tamped down violence in the war-torn country enough that the extra forces could return home by next summer.
But General David H. Petraeus told a deeply divided joint House committee that achieving the goal of a self-sustaining Iraq would be "neither quick nor easy."
You heard the man. The troops might be back by next summer. Maybe. But why do I get the feeling the troops are counting down to 1/20/09?
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