US-IRAQ: Surge Exposing Political Tensions

With the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion looming, two Washington think-tanks released reports today on the subject of increasing multi-lateral sectarian tensions in Iraq.

"The conventional wisdom among most conservatives and Washington policy elites is that the surge has 'worked'," starts the Centre for American Progress report, titled 'Awakening to the New Danger in Iraq'. "This conventional wisdom ignores the fact that the ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The reporting on reports gives some counter-views to the neo-con praise of the escalation of forces in the occupation. The story and reports posit there may be more violence breaking out into civil war.

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