the surge is working?

Posted on Monday 17 March 2008

Cheney, McCain, and Lieberman are all in Iraq right now, gathering good news to bring home for the coming campaign. The surge is working, they’ll say. Deaths are down. Our new strategy [hiring insurgents to fight on our side] is turning things around. Oil Production [the Hydrocarbon Law] is on the rise [almost up to the prewar levels]. So we’ve only lost 2.15 young Americans a day since the surge began almost down to our average [2.13.day] before the surge. Like the surges before, so long as we keep our troop levels up, the casualty rate falls. Yesterday, the New York Times published the most recent stats:

You call it…

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