From the Pentagon: The Surge didn't work.
From here:
"Don't let the quiet fool you," a senior defense official says. "There's still a huge chasm between how the White House views Iraq and how we [in the Pentagon] view Iraq. The White House would like to have you believe the 'surge' has worked, that we somehow defeated the insurgency. That's just ludicrous. There's increasing quiet in Iraq, but that's happened because of our shift in strategy - the 'surge' had nothing to do with it."
It must suck for the WH and their pundits to have the walls of false reality come crashing down around their heads.
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cho
January 23, 2008 - 13:09
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Aaron and I were talking about this point yesterday...
Rba talked about this in a discussion he and Jeff Huber were having about 6 months ago, when they were discussing what chance the Surge had of "working."
It's an very startling read (hat tip to Regroce's buzz ) ... More from the Asian Times article:
GreyHawk
January 23, 2008 - 13:22
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Yes -- very startling and interesting.
BTW - I made a small edit to your comment and inserted a paragraph mark between the paragraphs -- they were running together on my screen. I've seen that in several blockquotes that I've done, too. Gremlins.
Only the deluded appear to put any stock in the claim that the "Surge" worked; with the recent revelation of nearly 1,000 lies by the WH in the two years prior to the run-up to the Iraq war, it's surprising that they are afforded any credibility anymore.
...heck, it's surprising that they are even still in office.