Yep, I saw that, but didn't bother to post -- I thought this guy would have crawled back under a rock after his patron and hero, Saddam, was kicked out.
The surge turned things around on another difficult front, Washington. "Despite the fact that President Bush did preside over a strategy that was failing for three plus years, and he has been criticized for that," says Gen. Keane, "he also deserves a significant amount of credit because all around him people were advocating a failed strategy, particularly key leaders around him, and he had the wherewithal to make a tough decision that flew certainly in the face of political opposition even in his own party."
But you still get misty-eyed thinking of Kerry, huh AI? He would've won the war.
The surge gets way too much credit for the remission in fatalities. 2 factors contribute to it much more significantly: the US paying off sunnis, and AQ massacring the population indiscriminately. Without these two elements, the surge tactics would have produced nothing.
This is my favorite article of scientificized superstition proving again that W was wrong no matter what! No really! The surge didn't work! Really! Keane? Moron! Petraeus? Betrayed us! Odierno? Idiot! Aristotle? Wrong!
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Yep, I saw that, but didn't bother to post -- I thought this guy would have crawled back under a rock after his patron and hero, Saddam, was kicked out.
I guess the surge didn't work completely if he's still alive.
The surge turned things around on another difficult front, Washington. "Despite the fact that President Bush did preside over a strategy that was failing for three plus years, and he has been criticized for that," says Gen. Keane, "he also deserves a significant amount of credit because all around him people were advocating a failed strategy, particularly key leaders around him, and he had the wherewithal to make a tough decision that flew certainly in the face of political opposition even in his own party."
But you still get misty-eyed thinking of Kerry, huh AI? He would've won the war.
The surge gets way too much credit for the remission in fatalities. 2 factors contribute to it much more significantly: the US paying off sunnis, and AQ massacring the population indiscriminately. Without these two elements, the surge tactics would have produced nothing.
This is my favorite article of scientificized superstition proving again that W was wrong no matter what! No really! The surge didn't work! Really! Keane? Moron! Petraeus? Betrayed us! Odierno? Idiot! Aristotle? Wrong!
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