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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (129934)	7/25/2008 1:46:05 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

At least Obama can put events in the correct temporal order - unlike McBush who seems to think that the surge of troops started at the start of the 'Sunni Awakening' in Anbar. Obama has it right - the 'surge' was the last piece of the puzzle, and therefore it is impossible to determine its impact. The successful counter insurgency strategy - addressing the root causes of the insurgency - was actually a break with the Bush administrations long standing "we don't negotiate with terrorists" policy. Without the Sunni awakening and the pact with Sadr, the surge would not have had nearly the impact, if any at all. Rather than chanting the Bush "plow ahead you're with us or against us" mantra, some commanders finally saw that a combination of security and addressing of root causes is the way to solve the problem. Kudos to those commanders. How they got past Rumsfeld to be in a position to make that difference is a real miracle.