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|author=Arianna Huffington
|source=The Huffington Post
|date=December 27, 2006
|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/white-house-pushes-for-tr_b_37240.html
|quote="For months, those commanders, Gen. Abizaid and Gen. Casey, have been unwavering in their opposition to sending more troops to Iraq, arguing that it would increase Iraqi dependency on Washington, lead to more attacks by al-Qaeda, provide more targets for Sunni insurgents, attract more foreign jihadists to Iraq, increase the impression of an American occupation, and, in the evocative words of a senior military official, "be like throwing kerosene on a fire.""
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