Looks like "THE SURGE" being a success was a phony story trumpeted by the right-wing media. Surprised ?

Question

unless you call 5 out of 18 a success

The Associated Press has learned the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, will report that at least 13 of the 18 benchmarks to measure the surge of U.S. troops to Iraq are unfulfilled ahead of a Sept. 15 deadline.

i expect better results than what we've had in almost 5 years

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq

Answer 1

YOu're not a liberal, you're a super-liberal, blinded by your own ego.

As for now the surge has worked immensly well, don't rob that accomplishment from the military just so you can push your inaccurate bias

Answer 2

Jim, you're an idiot. This is nothing like Vietnam...yet.

Vietnam was 15 years long and cost over 50k lives...we are not even close to that in Iraq and Afghanistan yet.

What is similar is the liberal desire to cut and run. I encourage talking about Vietnam because I want to educate people on the true legacy of Vietnam...the liberals were cowards and it cost millions of South Vietnamese their freedom. The military won in Vietnam...a peace agreement was signed in Paris in 1973 ending hostilities. We pulled out with the understanding that if hostilities began again, we would return to help out allies in South Vietnam. The war was over and when we left there was a free South Vietnam. In 1975 the Viet Cong invaded the south and instead of keeping our word and coming to their aid, the US stood by and watched and let a free country fall.

Stop the ignorance and learn the true history and legacy of Vietnam.

Answer 3

Yes it is a success.

It has proven we have no business being in Iraq and should get out.

We lost that war the minute we stepped over the border and never won the hearts and minds of the people, and are losing that edge rapidly in the states.

Welcome to Vietnam, part II with Afghanistan being part III.

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Dude, it is exactly like Vietnam, remember -------- the hearts and minds of the people, we lost both theirs and our own in Vietnam, we are losing it in the two new wars. Plus the only difference between an insurgent and guerrilla is in name only. Length of the war and the amount killed has nothing to do with it, this is not a game with a score, this is war and it involves death on both sides. Give us 15 years, yea, it could end up with 50K dead, then what will you say as we hightale it off a rooftop in Baghdad? PS I won't call you an idiot for your idiotic statement if you don't, ok.

On another note, remember, I said the minute Bush crossed the border. He had won the battle when he got the inspectors in unimpeded (don't try to rewrite history), the inspectors were begging for more time as they were not finding anything despite our best intelligence. Bush said BS screaming immediate threat and ordered our troops in and that is when we started losing the war.

Peace

Jim

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