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McCain: "Bringing Troops Home Not Important"

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report. 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. May 9, 2008.

Shorter Rumsfeld: The buck does not stop here.

Is Iraq's Sadr Cease Fire Unraveling?

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report. 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, 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.