That so?
TPM Reader FF just flagged this article in today’s Oregonian. According to the article, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) was at a Republican conference defending his changed position on Iraq and specifically his opposition to the ‘surge’. And in the course of defending himself he said that even Gen. Patraeus says the plan has only a one in four chance of success.
“If you’re really going to do a surge, you don’t do it with 20,000, you do it with 250,000,” he said, noting that Baghdad is a city of nearly 7 million people. But he said the United States cannot afford such a response; instead it has to come from the Iraqi Army.
Smith said he recently spoke with Gen. David Petraeus, the new top military commander in Iraq, who told him the troop surge has only a one in four chance of succeeding.
Anyone follow up with Smith or Petraeus about this?
