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 Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

An article which continues the discussion about the relative success of the surge. Bushies claim additional troops turned the tide against violence. Non Bushies claim the reason for the decline in violence is due to: "newfound cooperation of Sunni groups who used to align themselves with the violent insurgency." Either way, it raises the question: if such a small percentage increase of troops was able to affect such a change, why weren't they committed at the start of the war?

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