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Originally Posted by Highwayman  Propaganda. |
I got your propaganda right here Army. Hot off the Kos Kids web site.
Wow. 30,000 extra troops taking out over 1000 insurgents per month has had little effect on the violence? He goes on to say it’s because Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army simply decided to stop killing Americans. I wonder what made them decide to do that?
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As U.S. casualties have continued to drop, many people on the anti-Bush side of the aisle have begun to quietly panic in recent days over this question: "Could George W. Bush and Frederick Kagan have possibly been right about the surge?"
Simply put, the answer is no. The surge is not working and George W. Bush and Frederick Kagan were not right. Despite what right-wing blogs are saying, and despite what conservative observers are noting, the plunge in violence is actually the result of an Iraqi political decision made by and implemented by Iraqis—and the drop has little to do with the "surge"—an infusion of 30,000 troops (which wouldn’t fill a Major League stadium) into Baghdad, a city of six million people....
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Daily Kos: The Real Story Behind the Falling Casualty Rate in Iraq