Now that the surge is working, will democrats try to take some credit for it?

Question

Now that Bush is succeeding in Iraq the UN comes back in to try and take partial credit.
Libs deny the surge is working, and it is working or the UN would not be coming back into the picture. Libs will give all the success to UN, and say Bush was not successful. To bad the Democrats will only be known as quitters. Dems did everything they could to prevent winning the war on terror.

Answer 1

I wouldn't hold my breath

Answer 2

Deaths count is down. Violence did decline, but that's really not the whole mission.

That doesn't tell us anything about political process. Which they need in order for us to get out. Iraqi gov is taking summer vacation.

It's good sign that violence have declined, but there have been ~0 progress on political front. Which is the whole point of this surge. US troops have done their job and it is now up to Iraqis. If Iraqis don't do their job the whole thing could fail.

We won't know for sure until few months later. Don't get too excited just yet. This war was never about who killed how many.

I hope GOP realizes that this whole Iraq War thing is little more than counting dead bodies in Iraq.

Answer 3

Politically? No using fact it would not negate the undesirable judgements made by Bush and the previous republican congress concerning Iraq. Bush has by no capacity leveled with the american human beings concerning what replaced into going on in Iraq and that, i've got faith, is a commonplace clarification why his approval scores are so low. human beings do no longer believe him and that loss of believe will rub off on the GOP nominee. i haven't heard any of the Republicans say that the subsequent step is that if the surge is definitely working. For that count i haven't heard a republican say what they recommend whilst they are asserting "the surge is working". easily till there is political progression in Iraq there could be no long term stability.

Answer 4

I can't speak for Democrats, since I am not one of them, but what precisely do you mean by working? Did General Petraeus report back the Congress when I wasn't looking? Was there some significant event that makes it manifest to all that the surge was the right thing to do?

Don't get me wrong. Petraeus is one of the more thoughtful and gifted generals around and probably he was one of the best men for the job. But there has been nothing substantive I have seen that suggests a few thousand more men have made all the difference.

Like Saddam's chemical weapons program, supporters of the President (as opposed to conservatives) keep claiming they existed, and yet nothing ever came of it. Methinks we are seeing a repeat here.

Answer 5

They should since it was the 06 elections that forced GW to try something different in the first place. If not for the Dems, Rumsfeld would have still been in charge saying "We don't need no stinkin surge.."

Also, its nice to know that arming the Sunni Death Squads and giving them Anbar Province was part of the "surge".

Answer 6

Dems like Murtha et. al. will say they were behind the troops all along, it was Bush who was against them.

By the way has Murtha apoligised for blaming the Marines for the murders in Haditha. "Its the pressure". Automatically accepted they were guilty and blamed Bush. They were found not guilty just as Murtha is guilty of being a political piece of schit.

Answer 7

The surge is working?

We're being fed this spoonful of lies by the same people who said that we would find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In reality, it's worse. Maliki has no control over his government. There are no Sunnis that are with him. It's all falling apart over there.

Answer 8

No, the Dems will continue aiding and abetting Al Queda, and hoping the US loses under a Republican president! Pathetic isn't it?

Answer 9

Wasn't it just two weeks ago conservative were screaming that we had to wait until September to judge the effectiveness of the surge?

Answer 10

Did Petraeus call you personally or sumfin?

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