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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 06:51 PM
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NBC..admits on You Tube...they CUT MTP ! Thomas Rick interview with "Dances with Rove" that you
Never Got to see!

Please watch (and notice the NBC disclaimer that this "segment" was for internet view, only.)

It's Thomas Ricks on WHY WE WILL NEVER GET OUT OF IRAQ! (from his new book) Let's call it "Thomas Ricks/NBC UNPLUGGED..the stuff that they didn't want their TEEVEE viewers to see but pandered to the INTERNET/NETROOTS!

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/ricks-on-change-in-iraq/288230384617832115/?icid=VIDURVNWS04
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 07:48 PM
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1. Please wtch...and I wonder why NBC cut this one and gave it to the Internet
to listen to? :shrug:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 08:12 PM
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2. Is this from "The Gamble"?
I just got it yesterday at the library
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 08:18 PM
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3. Yes...I believe so...Promo for his latest book after "Fiasco"...but NBC
left out the part on You Tube..I just posted. They probably didn't have time...but look at the Disclaimer on the site...

Anyway...it seems to be the book...JUST RELEASED?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 09:44 PM
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5. I think so
it was in the NEW section
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 09:47 PM
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6. I just Googled...Yes...Just Released on Amazon..."The Gamble" Feb. 10th, '09
Edited on Sun Feb-08-09 09:51 PM by KoKo
(I'm not trying to promote his book...just answering you...)
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http://www.amazon.com/Gamble-Petraeus-American-Adventure-2006-2008/dp/1594201978
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008 (Hardcover)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 10:23 PM
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11. REading through it and pic captions
apparently Bush/Cheney and all of the Pentagon brass didn't think the surge would work. Patreus not only enlisted an anthropologist and a Brit pacifist/cultural advisor he instituted what he did when he was heading the 101st (as Ricks briefly mentioned in "Fiasco") he paid off everyone. Even during the surge the admiral (name?) and others tried to change the policy, undermine it, and then finally accepted it.

Basically for all the bluster about THE SURGE none of them believed it until they realized it was all they had left and used it for the utmost political leverage...and that is about it.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 08:38 PM
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4. I hope many DU'er will view the "You Tube." It sort of sets up what we are up against..
Those of us who want to CUT Defense Spending...on that WAR IN IRAQ!
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 09:50 PM
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7. Thank-you. How sweet - just for us netroots or what Tweety lovingly refers to as
The Pajama Hudeen. :evilgrin:


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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 09:52 PM
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8. Are you trying to call me a "Pajama Gram?" Just in time for Valentine's Day?
:eyes:
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 09:56 PM
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9. No, I'm making "a dig" at Tweety - Chris Mathews. He was flustered one day by the email
and blogger criticizing him and refereed to US FOLKS in the netroots as "The Pajama Hudeen."

It's a complement. :hi:



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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-09 10:11 PM
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10. OKay...total Tweety! "thrills up leg and all."
Nice Shirley pic, btw...
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