Well, now we’ve heard from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and President George W. Bush, and it appears that the Surge has succeeded — succeeded in guaranteeing that the Iraq War will drag on for the last 16 months of the Bush presidency at a cost of another 1,600 American dead and $13 billion a month.

"Just as George Bush and Dick Cheney have done on politically important occasions,Gen. David Petraeus (along with Ambassador Ryan Crocker)last night selected Fox News' Brit Hume as the "journalist" rewarded with an exclusive interview.Whereas Hume, in the past, at least has pretended to play the role of journalist when interviewing high Bush of..."

George N. Crocker (July 31, 1906 in California - February 2, 1970 in San Francisco) was a United States Army officer, author, lawyer and businessman. Crocker was one of several critics of the New Deal and of Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. Crocker was one of seven judges in the largest and longest Army court-martial of World War II, described in the book On American Soil, by Jack Hamann.Crocker was the author of Roosevelt's Road to Russia, published by Henry Regnery Publishing (1959). Ignored by the New York/Washington establishment it garnered favorable reviews in the National Review, Modern Age, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Herald. In it, Crocker made claims that Roosevelt invariably backed Stalin and went to great lengths to hide this from the American public.