Published September 23, 2007
The New York Times (Week in Review)
WHEN MoveOn.org attacked Gen. David H. Petraeus, resorting to the schoolyard tactic of rhyming his name with something mean, leading Republicans must have felt like a band of desert-wanderers who had just stumbled onto an Olympic-size swimming pool. One by one, top Republicans lashed out at the now infamous advertisement, shifting the attention away from General Petraeus’s depressing testimony and branding the administration’s opponents as a bunch of radical, pierced-nose pacifist thugs.
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