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Iraq surge fallacy
Patrick Cockburn: Iraq better? With three wars going on?
When the US and Britain invaded Iraq, they started three wars. The first is the insurgency in the Sunni community against the American occupation; the second the struggle by the Iraqi Shia, sixty per cent of the population, allied to the Kurds, to take control of the Iraqi state, previously controlled by the Sunni; and the third a proxy war between the US and Iran about which of them is to have predominant influence in Iraq.
As Andrew Sullivan notes, the first two are not over and the third has barely started. Yet McCain makes headway claiming that the surge has worked.
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Very good point. Any sort of military victory, real or perceived, saves face for the blundering BushCo. Naturally, they will not point to abject political, economic, and institutional failures, nor will they even acknowledge specific failures in the other two war fronts you mention.
Seems like what BushCo is leading up to is blaming the Dems when Iraq devolves into Chaos when the surge forces begin to pack up and leave.
August 6, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
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