m$nbc - 'petreaus turned around a losing war in iraq'

petraeus came up with the surge.....it didn't fucking work...we're still there...we haven't won shit

to meet the August deadline. The most they have moved out of Iraq, so far, in one month was around 12,000.

what have we ACTUALLY accomplished in Iraq?

USA...USA...USA...USA...USA...

it did nothing to 'win' the war

that it was actually the Kurds that captured Saddam, kept him cool for us until the right moment, then THEY handed him over to us. On the same night that our illustrious rulers passed the Patriot Act II I believe.


How coincidental, no?

I ran across a UCLA satellite study that debunked the "surge," in Iraq as simple ethnic cleansing, starting with Sadr City:


Study: Surge in ethnic cleansing led to reduced violence in Iraq.
By Amanda Terkel on Sep 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

A new study released today by the University of California, Los Angeles concludes that ethnic violence — not the Bush administration’s surge — was the primary factor in reducing violence in Iraq. As FP Passport notes, researchers used satellite imagery from the Pentagon to track “electricity use in Iraq before, during, and after the surge took place”:

“If the surge had truly ‘worked,’ we would expect to see a steady increase in night-light output over time,” says Thomas Gillespie, one of the co-authors, in a press release. “Instead, we found that the night-light signature diminished in only certain neighborhoods, and the pattern appears to be associated with ethno-sectarian violence and neighborhood ethnic cleansing.”

Last year, the Government Accountability Office also said that “there might be fewer attacks because you have ethnically cleansed neighborhoods, particularly in the Baghdad area.” Similarly, in April, CNN’s Michael Ware told ThinkProgress that if “anyone is telling you that the cleansing of Baghdad has not contributed to the fall in violence, then they either simply do not understand Baghdad or they are lying to you.” More here Iraq’s unresolved tensions.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/study-ethnic-surge/




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm

Troops in Iraq - Total 90,000 U.S. troops as of February 28, 2010. All other nations have withdrawn their troops.

U.S. Troop Casualties - 4,409 US troops; 98% male. 91% non-officers; 82% active duty, 11% National Guard; 74% Caucasian, 9% African-American, 11% Latino. 19% killed by non-hostile causes. 54% of US casualties were under 25 years old. 72% were from the US Army

US Troops Wounded - 31,822, 20% of which are serious brain or spinal injuries. (Total excludes psychological injuries.)

US Troops with Serious Mental Health Problems - 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3 to 4 months of returning home


Yeah...we're winning.