On AlterNet: troop levels

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McCain: "Bringing Troops Home Not Important"

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: Video. June 11, 2008.

The Senator lays bare his real thoughts on continuing the war.

Rumsfeld Blames the Generals for Poor Pre-War Planning

Satyam Khanna, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2008.

Shorter Rumsfeld: The buck does not stop here.

Is Iraq's Sadr Cease Fire Unraveling?

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. March 25, 2008.

All of this, of course, comes in the midst of a discussion about U.S. troop levels, which the president is apparently prepared to leave as-is.

Runaway escalation in Iraq

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2007.

Lindsay Beyerstein: President Bush secretly plans to have more US troops than ever before in Iraq by the end of the year.

Troop Levels in Stability Operations: What We Don't Know

Peter J.P. Krause, MIT Center for International Studies. March 26, 2007.

Bush's Iraq troop "surge" in context.