Showing posts with label surge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surge. Show all posts
Sunday, August 10, 2008

McCain and the Bush administration say the surge worked. But did it?

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Success is a word whose definition I was pretty confident I understood. But the Bush administration and John McCain seem to have taken all o...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge, was killed. During the surge that was supposed to have protected him.

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The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassi...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The so called "success" of the surge is about to unravel.

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A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cl...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Since the surge was temporarily able to reduce violence in Iraq and allow Americans to feel victorious why not try that same strategy in Afghanistan?

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The conservative Washington think tank that devised the “surge” of US forces in Iraq has come up with a plan to send 12,000 more American tr...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Clinton stumbles over Iraq surge question.

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We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working. Wrong answer lady! The su...
Monday, June 18, 2007

As the country awaits the report from General Petraeus to see when the troops can start coming home, FOX News watchers already know.

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US forces could be needed in Iraq for a decade to battle insurgents, the top coalition commander said Sunday while vowing a "forthright...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Pentagon weighs in to say the surge is a failure. Nobody can really be surprised by this.

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Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence ...
Monday, June 04, 2007

Commanders say surge is a failure.

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Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

White House continues to move the goal line.

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The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater securi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Is the Bush surge plan in Iraq designed to kill more Americans?

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Increasingly across Iraq, U.S. forces are leaving the comfort and safety of their fortified mega-bases and establishing small combat outpost...