One piece of evidence that the surge is working you may have heard is that Iraq's internally displaced persons are returning to their homes. Shockingly, like most "good news" from Iraq, this turns out not to withstand much scrutiny.
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Refugees Returning
17 Apr 2007 09:26 am
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I hear that with the surge they've even been double-coated.
That you so obviously want the surge to fail and are only able to point to such a feeble attack suggests to me that the evidence so far must weigh strongly in the surge's favor. Even the source of the linked post(which incidentally points only to a divergance between iraqi and american accounts as a possible sign that the relevant claim is false. Far from the clear debunking the tone of your language intimates) states that sectarian murders are down since the start of the surge.
That you so obviously want the surge to fail . . .
I renew my request for a discussion of what it would mean for the surge to 'succeed' or 'work' or whatever.
I think the surge, if it 'succeeds' by any meaning of the word, will be like the elections, the capture of Saddam, and the handover of sovereignty. All these things 'succeeded', but none of the them fulfilled optimistic predictions of turning the war around.
War propagandists have scored a coup by changing the question from 'can we win in Iraq' to 'is the surge working'. Too many war critics are playing into their hands.
Three weeks ago, the sister called: It's safe now, she told them, the Sunni men were gone.
That's one surge that seems to be working.
Comments closed May 01, 2007.
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Heads in the Sand
Once again, you blithely ignore the number of schools that have been painted.
Posted by Petey | April 17, 2007 9:52 AM