Why are our soldiers dying? September will be NO DIFFERENT.
The only change will come when the REPUBLICANS WANT US OUT FOR POLITICAL REASONS. IMO
'a little bit of a metric' ????????????????????????
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Q Tony, whenever you, or the President, or anyone in the administration is asked about assessing how the surge is going, you point out not everyone is there yet, it's going to take a while -- 30 or 60 days. Are we going to see any softening of the September deadline for a pivotal assessment on how this is going?
MR. SNOW: You call it a pivotal assessment -- there are going to be regular assessments of what goes on -- what has been going on in Iraq.
And I think in September you will have the first opportunity to have a little bit of a metric to see what happens when you have all the forces in place for the Baghdad security plan. I mean, that I think -- if you want a definitive judgment, I've warned from the very beginning about expecting some sort of magical thing to happen in September.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070613-7.html