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I just want the straight story here. The Administration says it started two weeks ago, others say it started in January.

What is the truth?

2007-07-16 01:27:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Military

6 answers

Well, the announcment of the 'surge' was made in January, but the units were already selected, planned, and many were already well into the process of moving when it was annouced publicly, so the action phase had already been reached before public release.

That being said the buildup has been going continuously since then, culminating in the offensives that began around June and contine now. As far as the dialog on 'Surge', since there was no set 'withdrawl' time for these forces, or even mesurable criterea for assessment, there is a good case that this is really just a Public Relations label. Especialy when taken in context with the fierce opposition to even suggesting that these forces would be withdrawn anytime within the next few years.

As far as begining two weeks ago? I don't know the source of that statement, but perhaps they were refering to 'complete implementation' of forces and offensive actions was reached two weeks ago. That would make more sense, but neither the arrival of units or begining of new offensives from these units started a mere two weeks ago.

2007-07-16 03:21:06 · answer #1 · answered by Eric B 2 · 0 0

Technically, it didn't start until about a month ago, because that is when the last of the "surge" troops arrived in country. They started flowing in, in January. However, this isn't really a surge. That implies some type of quick "in and out" type of action. The Bushies just wanted a build up, and calling a surge sounded better than escallation. An escallation would have gone over like a lead balloon (although it did anyway).

2007-07-16 02:51:59 · answer #2 · answered by unjuana 2 · 0 0

The planning and moving of troops and materiel started in January, but it takes several months to move 35,000 troops and all their equipment across the world.

Although there were some increases in local crackdowns starting in May, the actual operations that were officially part of the surge didn't start until June, .

2007-07-16 01:46:37 · answer #3 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 0 0

All of the added troops just arrived and put in place 2 weeks ago. but democratic politicians and the wonderful media have been calling it a failure since it was announced in January, after they voted to approve the plan of course.

2007-07-16 01:38:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Two weeks ago. It was announced in January of what they were going to do.

2007-07-16 01:30:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

Not long enough ago=too little...too late.

2007-07-16 01:32:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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