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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Another Friedman Unit passes

As Atrios notes, another FU has gone by. This time it's six months since the Iraq Study Group released its findings.

Does anyone actually think the "reassessment" in September will lead to any substantive policy changes?

As Jon Stewart put it some time back while being interviewed by a journalist, (I paraphrase and can't remember the show,) the Bush administration keeps telling us our way of life depends on the occupation of Iraq. It's so vitally important that we have sent all of an extra 10,000 troops to Baghdad.

If it really was that important, we would have a draft in order to deal with it, and then people who don't really pay much attention might suddenly start caring a lot. There's a disconnect there, and the American people know it.

Iraq Forever!

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