US-IRAQ: Surge Exposing Political Tensions

Inter Press Service by Ali Gharib | Feb. 18, 2008 (News Report)

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 Joe Dunn - Oct. 1, 2008

This, in my mind, is a classic "he said, she said" article, which does very little reporting of facts on the ground. We basically learn that some people think the surge is "working", and some don't. Which we already knew. What we don't have enough of, and definitely dont get from this article, is new information.