[news] Iraq: Why the Surge has Failed

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Six months after the surge was launched...it has failed as dismally as so many First World War offensives. The US Defense Department says that this June the average number of attacks on US and Iraqi forces, civilian forces and infrastructure peaked at 177.8 per day, higher than in any month since the end of May 2003. The US has failed to gain control of Baghdad. The harvest of bodies picked up every morning first fell and then rose again... 

  


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