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Iraq War Making the U.S. Safer? Of Course Not

— By Jonathan Stein | Wed September 12, 2007 7:34 AM PST

So General Petraeus says he doesn't know if the war in Iraq is making the United States safer. We can answer that for him: it isn't. Not by a long shot. Here's the proof.

Update: Ah, the inevitable backtrack.

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