Former NSA Director Picks Apart Petraeus, Crocker Propaganda

Former Director of the NSA retired Lt. General William Odom speaks to Olbermann and says that Petraeus's testimony confirms what he has always believed; the situation is worse than is being reported.

Odom:"The major media in this country have also, I think, failed to report a lot about what’s going in Iraq. True, there have been drops in violence, but they didn’t look at what the consequences of that were, and they didn’t look at the politics of that. If they had looked at the politics they’d see more fragmentation, a weaker government and a much more hopeless situation than a year ago."

"General Casey has said that, that this is just not sustainable. We are really brutalizing our troops, calling it supporting the troops. We do have the option, to not brutalize them, but we continue to do it".

Tags: Iraq war, Petraeus, testimony, surge, troop withdrawal