Is the surge in Iraq working?
Marrakech II
23-10-2007, 04:20
Is the surge in Iraq working? According to this article it sounds like good news. Do you think this will maintain or is this just a lull with the usual amount of killing to resume shortly?
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSCOL24813120071022
I don't know.
Ask the insurgents.
Muravyets
23-10-2007, 04:28
Dammit. I'm the first recorded vote and I already messed up your poll. Sorry. I picked "No," but I should have picked "What Surge?," since it's just the same old bullshit with the label "surge" slapped on it.
But no, nothing is working over there and nothing ever will. This pooch is not going to get unscrewed.
Marrakech II
23-10-2007, 04:29
Dammit. I'm the first recorded vote and I already messed up your poll. Sorry. I picked "No," but I should have picked "What Surge?," since it's just the same old bullshit with the label "surge" slapped on it.
But no, nothing is working over there and nothing ever will. This pooch is not going to get unscrewed.
rookie
CanuckHeaven
23-10-2007, 04:52
Is the surge in Iraq working? According to this article it sounds like good news. Do you think this will maintain or is this just a lull with the usual amount of killing to resume shortly?
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSCOL24813120071022
Yeah, it is working really well!! :p
2007 sees the worst bombings ever – and more of them (http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/biggest-bombs/)
US forces have killed 67 Iraqi civilians (including 19 children) so far in October (http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/recent/).
The Baghdad ‘surge’ and civilian casualties (http://http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/baghdad-surge/)
It is important to place the events of 2007 in context. Levels of violence reached an all-time high in the last six months of 2006. Only in comparison to that could the first half of 2007 be regarded as an improvement. Despite any efforts put into the surge, the first six months of 2007 was still the most deadly first six months for civilians of any year since the invasion.
Yootopia
23-10-2007, 10:01
Errmmm... bit soon to say, no?
It hasn't stopped the insurgency yet, so no.
Edwinasia
23-10-2007, 10:27
Iet ies working for mie.
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Tape worm sandwiches
23-10-2007, 13:13
you mean the escalation,
of smashing resistance to the criminal occupation.
al queda types make up a very, very minute portion of non-'allied'
fighters in Iraq.
actually, it hasn't been, and is well documented.
The Ninja Penguin
23-10-2007, 13:16
nothing is working over there - it's pointless to throw more human lives at it
here in my hometown, we have recently buried a soldier who died over there - he leaves behind a wife and two daughters - I applaud his dignity and his duty to his country but I can't help feeling that his death is so unneccessary