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On Iraq and Petraeus: O'Hanlon Takes Off the Mask

Via Yglesias, I give O'Hanlon credit, he has stopped fibbing about being a "Iraq war and Surge critic." And he does so in an appropriate venue, National Review, where he becomes an open apologist for General Petraeus:

For those reading this after watching General David Petraeus’s Monday testimony, I strongly suspect that my main argument will have become apparent to many: General Petraeus is a straight shooter who does not and will not cook the books. . . . Some of Petraeus’s critics will argue, as they already have, that he wrote an oped in the fall of 2004 that was too optimistic about the training of Iraqi Security Forces then — and too closely timed to the American elections that November. To them, that suggests he was and is acting as an agent of White House spin. That oped may in retrospect have been somewhat too optimistic. . . . However, a possible misjudgment on this matter hardly shows Petraeus to be a spinmeister. If anything, it shows him to be human. . . .

Sure, O'Hanlon, sure. I see "Fox news analyst Michael O'Hanlon" in your future.

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    I guess O'Hanlon (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Edger on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 11:01:16 AM EST
    figures that he's more believeable as just a plain ole straight shootin' liar than he was as a liar who lies about lying?

    He's bound to find someone to buy his BS, I suppose....

    David Petraeus is one hell of a (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 02:02:41 PM EST
    bureaucratic straight shooter!

    All too human... (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by kovie on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 02:09:50 PM EST
    Bush may have been wrong about Iraq's WMD. That just makes him human, not a liar. And I just bought the Baghdad Bridge--the one they're building over Florida swampland with joint Shiite-Sunni-Kurd forces.

    How stupid does a person have to be to buy this crap? Stupid enough to be one of the 30%, I guess. Ah, those silly, silly Bushie dead-enders...

    How stupid does a person have to be (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 03:15:40 PM EST
    to buy this crap? This stupid.

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