IRAQ: After the surge in Iraq: has the US won?
                   
greenleft.org.au
28-Sep-2008 2 related
        

IRAQ After the surge in Iraq: has the US won? “The surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated”, US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama told Fox News on September 4. Obama’s claim echoed Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain. Both candidates claim that the surge, which involved sending more than 20,000 extra US troops into Iraq, has reduced violence and “stabilised” Iraq,... [read full story]                    

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