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# Surge tactic begets stall tactic
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/surge-tactic-begets-stall-tactic-editor/
- Published: 2007-07-20T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:20:17.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Cecilia Rosenthal Santa Monica*

Now that September ’07 is getting close, we are starting to hear mutterings from the White House: “April ’08... next spring... April ’08... next spring...”

Is there anyone left who doubts that if we give the surge until April ’08, the mutterings from the White House will then name a date after the election?

Congress, don’t let them get away with it again!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 20, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/072007.pdf?ref=smdp.com)