The Dark Side Of The Surge: Cleansing, Partitioning, Imprisonment

The Dark Side Of The Surge: Cleansing, Partitioning, Imprisonment

Since Jan. 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced his troop "surge," more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the Iraq War - about a quarter of the total war dead - but now an even higher cost may loom ahead, the indefinite continuation of the conflict under President John McCain.

Despite strong evidence to the contrary, it has become established conventional wisdom among mainstream Washington journalists that the "surge" was the singular reason for the recent decline in Iraq's violence. It's also agreed that McCain deserves great credit for pushing the "surge" idea early.

Barack Obama has been repeatedly chastised - even badgered - for opposing the "surge." His attempts to refocus the debate more broadly on the wisdom of invading Iraq in the first place are rudely rejected by Big Media interviewers.

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