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Setting the Record Straight

Stability Will Require Taking the Blinders Off

posted on 04/23/08

“Our coalition and the Iraqi forces have seized the initiative in a major way, and put the enemies of Iraqi democracy on the run. The critics have been proved wrong. The surge is working, the forces of freedom are winning. … Our strategy is the right strategy. In fact, the only way to lose this fight is to quit."
–Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Remarks to the Manhattan Institute, April 21, 2008

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“That’s part of the problem. We view the conflict there as one to be resolved by the American military. Now do not misunderstand me. The American military has performed magnificently, you can’t solve the problem there without them, but this tunnel vision that you’re gonna solve the problems of Iraq by military means alone is woefully inadequate, and the key is to use all of the tools of American power— intelligence of course, military, of course, economic, trade, aid, skillful people going over there.”
–Lee H. Hamilton, president and director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, co-chair, Iraq Study Group, conference on “The United States and the Middle East: What Comes Next after Iraq?” keynote address, "Iraq: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond," Tufts University, Medford Campus, March 27, 2008

In Monday’s edition of the bulletin, we referred to Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland as Gloria Eiland. We apologize for the error.