The Daily Background
| Military Abruptly Retreats From Iraq Surge’s Original Goal
by Arlen Parsa
On January 10th, George W. Bush stood before the nation in a prime-time address and outlined his plan for a so-called “surge” of American troops into Iraq. The explicitly stated purpose of the “surge” was to lower sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad, so that political progress could occur.
“The violence in Iraq — particularly in Baghdad,” Bush admitted, “overwhelmed the political gains the Iraqis had made.” The escalation’s goal was to cut the level of violence, Bush said, later promising that “If we increase our support at this crucial moment, and help the Iraqis break the current cycle of violence, we can hasten the day our troops begin coming home.”
On May 2nd, Bush reiterated that the goal of his “surge” was to bring down the overall amount of sectarian violence in Iraq, saying “The definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down.”
Most Americans now agree that the surge is not achieving its intended goal of lowering violence. A CBS/NYT poll in May found that 76% believed the “surge” was either making the situation in Iraq worse, or having no effect whatsoever. Despite the fact that all the “surged” troops are now in place in Baghdad, the second in command in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno recently conceded that 60% of Baghdad is still out of control.
In the face of a worsening situation in Iraq, military officials have now backed away from the original purpose of the surge– decreasing the level of violence.
Click here to read the rest of this piece I wrote for BradBlog, published today.
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now in usa total war news blockade. this disgrace first first constitution amendment of usa.
usa founding fathers wanting the hundreds of him news sources. But now so consolidation only 7 sources for ameriki and all so control.
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usa media trick ameirki for kill muslim for masters in tel aviv but back home in usa all society be destroy. This betray of usa soldier fight brave in iraq.
Now all land of ameriki go to aztec and maya. meanwhile, all usa family destroy when kill abortion the babies. woman the slut with LBT (low back tattoo) or maybe now it go lesbian, and hating to cook the food. leave the child with the aztec babysitter. and so many the fat people in usa. called obese, just the greedy and so fat.
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