A look back at a year of Surge

Crooks and Liars looks at the anniversary of the short term surge of US forces.

Today has been the anniversary of Bush’s surge in Iraq. Clearly there is no political reconciliation in Iraq so the surge is and always will be a failure no matter how many times Joe Lieberman and John McCain proclaim it so. This has been an immoral war started by neocon warmongers and the end result at this point is that the Iraqi people have suffered dearly for our sins.

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Remember what the plan was to start. Curbing violence was important, but not an end. It was to give the leaders in Iraq time and space to get the real work done. It is not being done. Some local work is happening. People are standing up. But many are looking ahead to very narrow ends on the ground in Iraq. They are waiting to grab at power, resources, and "justice." And what about Kirkuk and the Kurds, these have been divisive and dangerous issues, and continue to be so.