Monday, February 25, 2008
The Surge in Iraq was a Success??!!
Moqtada al-Sadr: the man responsible for the surge 'succeeding'?
I'm watching CNN and just heard that f*ckery floated without challenge while they were talking about John McCain a few moments ago. Agree?
Related:
From a Baltimore Sun article by David Wood:
"The Bush administration has ordered a significant number of troops to stay behind in Iraq as small military withdrawals continue this spring and summer, according to a senior Pentagon officer.
About 140,000 troops will remain on duty in Iraq in July when the last of the five "surge" brigades is withdrawn, Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters this afternoon.
That's about 8,000 more troops than were fighting in Iraq when President Bush ordered the "surge" of reinforcements 13 months ago."
Click here to read the full article, "140,000 troops to stay in Iraq as withdrawals begin."
And from a Boston Globe article by John Affleck, "Cleric Sadr renews militia's cease-fire":
"Moqtada al-Sadr kept the Iraqi nation on edge for two days, raising the possibility he would not renew a six-month cease-fire of his powerful Mahdi Army and that the country would plunge back into spasms of sectarian killing.
Then, in a dramatic touch, the Shi'ite cleric sent 200 sealed envelopes to be opened at yesterday's prayer services across Iraq. The answer was inside, he promised.
The answer was yes, the cease-fire will continue - a dramatic step likely to hold down American and Iraqi casualties while bolstering Sadr's importance as a political player in the Iraqi scramble for power."
So basically, this surge was only effective because of the whim of this nut job? Nice! [Click here to read the rest of the article.]
Labels: GOP incompetence, Iraq war, War on Terror
