Pelosi Says Iranians, Not Troops, Make Surge Success

... Deep in an interview the House Speaker granted to the editorial board of the hometown San Francisco Chronicle, Abe Greenwald found this eyebrow-raising passage:

"Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians -- they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities -- the Iranians."

These remarks were not apparently included in the Chronicle itself, but were found on a Chronicle podcast of the interview. We didn't find any mainstream-media notice of this on Thursday or Friday.

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