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"Petraeus cuddles abandoned Iraqi lambs!" Guest post from a friend:
I'm sorry, but Operation Petraeus Propaganda - reaches unexcelled heights with this article. It's like a press release. Coming tomorrow in the hard-hitting WaPo series leading up to the Petraeus briefing: "Petraeus cuddles abandoned Iraqi lambs!" The lede: "General David Petraeus, the man single-handedly responsible for turning the Iraq War around, likes to tell his troops about the importance of the "propaganda of the deed" in counterinsurgency operations. Always practicing what he preaches, over the last eight months, Petraeus has repeatedly put himself in mortal danger by descending on a town recently cleared and meeting locals without body armor or the other trappings of the elite commander. But Petraeus astonished even his own brain trust - composed of Rhodes scholar-warriors to a person - on Sunday when he publicly cuddled and fed a pair of baby lambs whose mother had been slaughtered in front of their eyes by al Qaeda only hours before. [New paragraph] Local residents were taken aback and immediately declared their devotion to the cause of bottom-up national reconciliation. "Before I thought of the Americans as my enemy," said Ralph al-Peters, a resident of X, the town where the Petraeus cuddled the cuties. "But now I realize that the American Congress must not abandon us to the lamb-slaughterers. I hope they see that the enemy of our lambs is our enemy and that al Qaeda must be defeated so there is not another 9-11 nuclear holocaust made by the Iranians."