Arianna: Bush Sets the Table for September: Who You Gonna Believe, Petraeus or Your Own Eyes?

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From the Huffington Post
Dated Friday July 27

Bush Sets the Table for September: Who You Gonna Believe, Petraeus or Your Own Eyes?
By Arianna Huffington

In preparing us for Gen. David Petraeus' inevitable glass-half-full September assessment, the administration has been putting a Bushian spin on the classic Marx Brothers line "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?"

For Bush and his minions, the question to the American people has become: Who you gonna believe, Petraeus or the facts -- and the bodies piling up -- on the ground?

Over the last four years, Bush has told us again and again and again that he believes "strongly that politicians in Washington shouldn't be telling generals how to do their job" -- and then has done precisely that. It would be comical -- if the consequences weren't so tragic . . . .

(T)he backyard of the White House is littered with the dead careers of military experts the president refused to listen to, starting with Gen. Shinseki, who warned that we were heading into Iraq with too few boots on the ground, and continuing through Gen. Casey, who had the full trust of the president -- until he became an advocate of withdrawal and a naysayer of the surge.

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