The Failure of the Surge on OpEdNews.com

September 5, 2007

The Failure of the Surge
by Hans Meyer
http://www.opednews.com/

September is upon us and the much awaited (and anticipated) report from General Petraeus on the situation in Iraq is becoming due. Already there is a certain tug-of-war between the President and Congress over whether progress is really being made in Iraq (witness the study carried out by the White House in June), or whether little (if any) progress is being made (see the just-released GAO report).

In a perverse form of poetic justice, I see that any success of the so-called surge is really just further condemnation of the entire administration approach to the execution of the Iraqi invasion and its aftermath.

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