Success of the Surge

Iraq Middle Class Is Languishing

LA Times | Tina Susman and Raheem Salman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Night after night, hour after hour, Hussein Ali Mohammed sits alone in the medical clinic that employs him as a guard. It is not the job the 26-year-...

24,000 civilian Iraqi deaths in 2007

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


US-led coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group m...

Iraq Healthcare Worse Than Before War

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says. Doctors from the group Medact conducted surveys...

Safer Baghdad Becomes A City Of Green Zones

Christian Science Monitor | Sam Dagher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Abu Nawas, Baghdad's storied riverbank thoroughfare, reopened amid much official fanfare two weeks ago. But three years since they last saw business, ...

GOP Sen. Leader Mitch McConnell Belittles Deaths of Troops

Election Central | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Uh oh -- looks like GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell has got a problem on his hands. Check out what he said about the death of American troops in Ira...

Jason Linkins

Parsing 'Surge' Commentary, Schieffer Gets To The Heart Of The Matter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The assessments from Murtha and Webb stand in contrast to the rhetoric of those who widely regard the "surge" as a completed mission and proof of concept for the entire war in the first place.