Anti-surge group ‘fact checks’ Petraeus
by Frank James, The Swamp, 10 September 2007
The National Security Network, a group of national-security experts critical of the surge from the progressive wing of U.S. politics has issued its own fact check of Gen. David Petraeus’s testimony so far.
Their take on his testimony is that the general states as facts statistics whose sources are in doubt or disputed.
The use of “fact-checking” by a group that is a party to the debate resembles what happens in political campaigns and demonstrates how much the debate over the future U.S. course in Iraq has indeed become something of a political campaign in its own right.
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