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Is it too early to say the surge has failed?
"You have the enemy trying to show it is still strong and able to move and stir fear in the population," said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver on Sunday. "We anticipated a movement of enemy forces and violence to the north, south, east and west of Baghdad."
1000's more troops are sent to Baghdad and the violence moved elsewhere (and it's not exactly stopped in Baghdad either). Big surprise. This was always going to happen, and Bush must have know this was going to happen.
So what now and how long does the failure in Iraq go on? Does it have to continue until Bush leaves office because he doesn't have the courage to bring it to an end?
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Infiltrators kill 10 GIs in Baghdad
Deadly truck bombing in Mahmoudiya -- al-Sadr asks Iraqi police, soldiers to join him, Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times, Monday, April 9, 2007
Ten U.S. soldiers were killed over the weekend as armed groups avoiding Baghdad's security dragnet attacked with bombs and other weapons in cities and towns just outside the capital.
The violence came as radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqi soldiers and police to unite with his Mahdi Army to oppose the American presence in Iraq.
On Sunday, in the southern city of Mahmoudiya, a truck bombing killed 17 Iraqis and wounded 26 others. The U.S. military has acknowledged that the security crackdown in Baghdad might increase attacks outside the capital.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...MNGERP54CR1.DTL
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Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shias have demonstrated in the holy city of Najaf, calling for US-led troops to leave Iraq.
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04-10-2007 12:56 AM
