You Call That The Center? by Dan Froomkin

YOU CALL THAT THE CENTER? - DAN FROOMKIN (WASHINGTONPOST.COM, SEPTEMBER 13): The emphatic and persistent White House message about nominal military successes in Iraq, culminating with Gen. David Petraeus's congressional testimony this week, dominated the airwaves and shifted the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom about Iraq policy -- while not, interestingly enough, diminishing the public's desire to get the hell out one bit.
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