Iraq: surge in counterattacks

"We don't have any more troops to pour into Iraq"
The more tours our soldiers endure, the more the right wingers proclaim their love for the military. Quit screwing over our troops, reinstitute the draft!
 
So if we can just hold the $125 billion a year mark in borrowed taxpayer dollars for spending in Iraq for.... another 5 or 6 years IMAGINE the progress!
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Michtex: Thanks for the info. I'll be dissapointed if this measure actually adds to that nation's problems, rather than helping to decrease them. However, this is Iraq's first try at democracy in this generation and I'm not shocked that their parliament is having trouble passing coherent legislation, especially given the great sectarian differences over there. Hell, does any of the stuff that comes out of the American Congress every actually do what it is suppossed to do?

The original poster claimed that there was no political reconciliation happening. In my opinion, this new law negates that argument. The fact that Iraq's elected leaders were able to come together and pass this legislation is cause for optimisim and celebration, regardless of whether or not the legislation is 100% perfect.
 
austex - I can't argue against factual decreases in numbers and it's true that it correlates with the surge at the end of last summer. But as you may know, a correlation does not indicate causality.

Other major factors attributed to the falling numbers occurring last August relate to The Mahdi Army entirely unexpectedly announcing a 6 month ceasefire. They didn't surrender, they didn't broker a truce with any coalition, they only fell back to regroup and plan.

The end of summer also corrlates with the peak of 5 million Iraqi refugees having been displaced both internally and externally - there is no one left to purge from empty neighborhoods so naturally killing falls off.

But here we are again with a renewed sectarian wave of attacks that stand to reverse the progress made in Anbar in particular.

Truck's Son -as michtex pointed out, the legislation regarding reinstating Iraqi ex-Baathists stands to exclude more ex-Baathists from key positions than it includes now. You call that political reconciliation. And down is up, I guess.
 
Amb. Crocker and Gen. Petraeus, for all their capacity as individuals, are still Bush Admin. spokespeople. I do not believe they have the initiative to ever publicly oppose the WH party line, as many other high ranking officials have, and for this they have kept their jobs.

This is another article from the one michtex linked to about the legislation that shows how it's not what it seems. Per the WaPo:
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Ag - With BushCo, it's loyalty that's rewarded with promotion, not success. BushCo is pretty desperate to point to some success, any success that can be called a step towards political reconciliation.

True to form, they take people with a positive public opinion and have them spin something into another thing it is not, like Powell. This new legislation is 'legislation' if that excites you, but it's "clear as mud" at best and at worst has the opposite advertised effect which pretty much sums up this entire Admin.

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I've always been partial to the Bushles myself.

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With this Bush Admin., it's loyalty that's rewarded with promotion, not success. Bush is pretty desperate to point to some success, any success, that can be called a step towards political reconciliation.

True to form, they take people with a positive public opinion and have them spin something into another thing it is not, like Powell. This new legislation is 'legislation' if that excites you, but at best it's "clear as mud" and at worst this has the opposite advertised effect which pretty much sums up this entire Admin.

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