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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (129563)	7/21/2008 7:25:47 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I just posted a confession by an antiwar liberal that he and his fellows were wrong about the surge: And then in early 2007 came the surge, which so many of us in the antiwar left of the Democratic Party predicted would be a failure, throwing good men and women and billions of dollars after futility. We were wrong. The surge did, in fact, lead to a reduction of violence, confirmed by media on the ground as well as our military leaders. It did allow the Shi'ite government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the last several months to show leadership by joining, if not leading, the military effort to clean out of Basra the masked Mahdi Army controlled by the anti-U.S. Shi'ite extremist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and from the Sadr City section of Baghdad he claimed to control. This willingness by the Shi'ite-dominated al-Maliki government to move against the Sadr Shi'ite extremists won crucial credibility for the government among many Sunni leaders and Sunnis on the streets, who joined together with Shi'ites to turn against the al Qaeda in Iraq and other Taliban-like extremists. These are facts, not arguments. Message 24778625