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| POLITICS-US: Bush Campaigns to Sustain Military "Surge" - IPS |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| to Sustain Military "Surge"IPS - 22 minutes agoBy Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (IPS) - Opening a new campaign to sustain his "surge" strategy in Iraq, President George W. Bush Wednesday compared Washington's ongoing struggle there to both World War II and the Vietnam War where, he said, ...Bush offers support for |
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| The Surge is Not the Solution |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 10:31 pm |
| Tags: Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton |
| question is not whether the surge is "working" to prevent this IED or that car-bombing. It's not whether you can cherry-pick one area in which one kind of violence is down. What's needed is political change - in the US and in Iraq - and that has to be the question asked every time the word "surge" is used. Chris Dodd gets that: |
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| Bush whips up a storm over 'surge' - Asia Times Online |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 6:53 am |
| Tags: Top Stories |
| whips up a storm over 'surge'Asia Times Online - 26 minutes agoBy Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Opening a new campaign to sustain his "troop surge" strategy in Iraq, US President George W Bush on Wednesday compared Washington's ongoing struggle there to both World War II and the Vietnam War, in the latter of which, ...We must |
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| Iraq Troop Surge Working - al-Maliki Not |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 11:19 am |
| administration's Iraq troop surge policy in order to try and keep the American people totally upset by American involvement in Iraq. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh have been saying for months that the democratic party is invested in defeat and on this point he might just be correct.If Americans just sit down and think this Iraq War situation |
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| Democrats Praise Surge Results, Part I |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 2:11 pm |
| Tags: National Security |
| being achieved by the surge, whose purpose is to provide Iraqi politicians with the breathing space to achieve political reconciliation and to evaluate the extent to which they are taking advantage of the opportunity. On August 19, we visited Jordan for a series of meetings concerning Iraq, refugees, and regional security. We |
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| On MSNBC, Zuckerman claimed that "the consensus is that the surge is working" |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 3:03 pm |
| Tags: Mortimer Zuckerman, Tucker Carlson, Msnbc, Tucker, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq |
| summer whether or not the surge was successful. Do you -- have you reached a conclusion? GATES: I think that the military side of the surge -- we've still got a little ways to go -- but I think that the military side of the surge has been successful. I think that the ability to go in -- the problem when we would go after Al Qaeda |
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| Wash. Times again falsely claimed Clinton said "the surge is clearly 'working' " |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 2:56 pm |
| Tags: The Washington Times, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq |
| on Monday that the surge is clearly 'working.' " In fact, as Media Matters for America previously noted, Clinton never said that President Bush's troop "surge" policy in Iraq "is clearly 'working.' " Instead, in a speech she gave on August 20, Clinton linked the improvements in Iraq's Al Anbar Province to |
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| Iraq report [NIE may bolster surge policy |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 5:33 pm |
| Source: [b]ap[/b] Iraq report may bolster surge policy By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Intentionally or not, a new assessment of Iraq's political and military prospects landed just in time to bolster President Bush's case that the United States should maint... |
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| New 'surge' report paints grim picture - Asia Times Online |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 6:32 am |
| 'surge' report paints grim pictureAsia Times Online - 1 hour agoBy Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - While there have been some improvements in Iraq's security situation over the past seven months, the level of overall violence remains "high", with only modest improvements possible over the next six to 12 months, |
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| More displaced Iraqis since U.S. surge |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| BAGHDAD (UPI) -- An aid group says the number of Iraqis fleeing to sectarian enclaves has doubled since the U.S. troop surge began, The New York Times reported Thursday. |
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| More on Iraq Surge Politics |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 10:28 am |
| Tags: William Boettcher Iii, Michael D Cobb, Iraq, Public Opinion, Jim Hoagland |
| and this year's military surge has become a device for achieving political reconciliation among people who do not want to reconcile. Regardless of how the Republicans and the neo-cons try to spin this, CNN's polling supports the observation Boettcher and Cobb made a year ago about credibility. CNN says: A majority of Americans don't trust |
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| RJ Eskow: Bipartisan Elite Agrees -- Surge, 'GWOT' Are Failures (And Hillary's Wrong) |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 12:53 pm |
| So, how about that Surge? The report says it all: More than half say the surge is having a negative impact on U.S. national security, up 22 percentage points from just six months ago. This sentiment was shared across party lines, with 64 percent of conservative experts saying the surge is having either a negative impact or no impact at |
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| 'Clinton surge-ery:' Iraq policy working, not working |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 1:20 pm |
| Tags: White House 2008 |
| success or failure of Bush's surge,'' said Jim Jordan, senior advisor for the Dodd camp. "Really, it smells like more poll-driven straddling." This is the Union-Leader's editorial: Clinton's surge-ery: Now it's working, now it's not ON MONDAY, Sen. Hillary Clinton said Gen. David Petraeus' troop surge in Iraq is working. On Wednesday |
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| Krauthammer falsely claimed that Clinton "concedes that the surge 'is working' " |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 2:31 pm |
| Tags: Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Hillary Clinton, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq |
| concedes that the surge "is working" (albeit very late) against the insurgency, and when Petraeus himself concedes that the surge cannot continue indefinitely, making inevitable a drawdown of troops sometime in the middle of next year, the terms of the Iraq debate become narrow and the policy question simple: What do we do right |
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| Gov. Bill Richardson: The Surge Has Failed; No Residual Troops |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 4:37 pm |
| up support for his failed "surge" strategy, President Bush compared a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq to America's withdrawal at the end of the Vietnam War. The president is wrong. We don't need anymore troop surges we need a diplomatic surge. We must get all our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. In 1968, Richard Nixon ran on a |
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