RECYCLING TWO-YEAR-OLD CRITICISMS OF U.S. STRATEGY as if they were new? “This written testimony was issued eleven months before President Bush proposed the ‘surge’ of American troops into Iraq, almost eleven months before General David Petraeus was confirmed as the new Commanding General, Multi-National Force – Iraq, and a full year prior to the beginning of the buildup of American forces beginning in February of 2007 as part of the new Strategy for Iraq.” That’s not “news.” It’s “olds.”