Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Why The Agenda?

Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker would present a mixed analysis of the success of the current troop surge strategy, given continued violence in Baghdad. But of late there have been signs that the commander of U.S. forces might be preparing something more generally positive. Clyburn said that would be "a real big problem for us."

You can read more here.

Some questions:
-Why would a generally positive report be a problem?
-What is more important in this "conflict"?
-What appears to be more important for the Democrats? The Republicans?

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