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SURGE PROVES TO BE A MUCH BIGGER FAILURE THAN BEFORE

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

If you were waiting for the other shoe to drop on this troop surge in Iraq–than it already had.

Months ago.

Did Bush actually believe that adding another 30,000 tired and worn out troops to the mix was going to make any difference in Iraq–especially in the long run?

4 months ago, Bush said that the goals of the surge was to tamp down the violence in Baghdad and give the severely weakened Malaki government “breathing room”.

But four months into the operation–now at full strength–has proven that nothing has really changed as a whole.

Violence still is at an all-time high, attacks are constant, Baghdad is still under siege, and all Bush can do and say is: “We won’t know for several more months–if the troop surge will work or not.”

But why wait four more months, when we can already see the end results of this failed gamble?

Nothing has changed. The capital is still besieged, the insurgents are still running amok all over the place, and Malaki can’t figure out how to best approach this problem–when the people he was sworn into a couple years ago–has lost all confidence in his ability to unite the country?

For the life of me, I can’t figure out the logic of the Bush administration in this mess. The latest signs point to a complete failure of this troop surge, but we’re being told to wait several more months.

Or another year. Whichever comes first. But whether or not the time comes for the truth to come out, the reality of this troop surge has become clear to me:

It never worked.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

Labels: Baghdad, Bush, insurgents, Malaki, months, troop surge, year

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 7:26 AM