The Iraq War ‘Surge’ Myth Returns (click here)
Exclusive: To win Senate approval as Defense Secretary, former Sen. Chuck Hagel likely will be forced to bow before Official Washington’s cherished myth of the Iraq War’s “successful surge.” To tell the more nuanced truth would open Hagel to another round of neocon attacks, writes Robert Parry....
So much for Assad. The USA carried out high amounts of civilian casualties in Iraq. There are estimates outside what can actually be counted extending to 600,000.
So much for Assad. The USA carried out high amounts of civilian casualties in Iraq. There are estimates outside what can actually be counted extending to 600,000.
| 110,991 – 121,282 (click here) | |
| Further analysis of the WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs may add 12,000 civilian deaths. The Iraq Surge was a knee jerk reaction by Bush and Condi Rice. The Iraq Study Group had returned a verdict on the lack of strategy by Bush. He could have been impeached for using the USA military without a strategy for the defense of the USA. The USA military is not suppose to be an arm to the Plutocrats. The body counts on both sides of the equation was building without a clear strategy to victory. So, Bush put more boots on the ground and proceeded to kill at will. In the tables on this epage of "Iraq Body Count" (click here) it is easy to note the increase in civilian deaths in January 2007. The daily deaths escalated from 16 in 2006 to 22 in 2007. The Iraq Study Group concluded their study December 6, 2006 and "The New Way Forward" / The Iraq Surge was deployed January 2007. So, it is completely obvious The Surge was successful because larger number of people died. SOME citizens of real conscience, rather than political directive, might not call The Surge a success so much as a slaughter. Senator Hagel is correct. He is facing men he had as colleagues and has faced before with the same outcomes. He differed in opinion from votes then and he differs in opinion from their enthusiasm for killing today. He will be a remarkable Secretary of Defense. He actually balances the cost of human loss of war with political benefits and the actual success of the cost of the defense of the country. I am quite confident the Former Senator Obama and Former Senator Hagel had agreements no media serve ever bothered to register. He is the President's choice for a very real reason. Senator Hagle stated in order to look at The Surge and the opposition to it one has to look at the entire war and it's reasons for engagement. He is correct. Senator McCain prefers to cherry pick his focus and justify the votes for the war. McCain is political in his Sentorship, Hagel is not. |
