Funny how life is. At first everyone pointed their fingers and said look there are attacks daily and soldiers are still dying so the surge isn't working. Now that the daily attacks have stopped and there are no soldiers dying daily it's all about political progress. I thought the surge was about both, stopping the daily attacks on our soldiers and the Shiites and Sunnis so everyone could work things out. Here's an excerpt from the state of the union address in 2007
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"In order to make progress toward this goal, the Iraqi government must stop the sectarian violence in its capital. But the Iraqis are not yet ready to do this on their own. So we're deploying reinforcements of more than 20,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Iraq. The vast majority will go to Baghdad, where they will help Iraqi forces to clear and secure neighborhoods, and serve as advisers embedded in Iraqi Army units. With Iraqis in the lead, our forces will help secure the city by chasing down the terrorists, insurgents, and the roaming death squads. And in Anbar Province, where al Qaeda terrorists have gathered and local forces have begun showing a willingness to fight them, we're sending an additional 4,000 United States Marines, with orders to find the terrorists and clear them out. (Applause.) We didn't drive al Qaeda out of their safe haven in Afghanistan only to let them set up a new safe haven in a free Iraq."
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It really doesn't matter, you all will believe what you want to believe and I'll still believe what I want to believe, thats the way life is. Variety is the spice of life. Just don't be surprised when Obama changes his tune about bringing the troops home and the effectiveness of the surge if and when he goes to Iraq or soon after he returns and definitely sometime before taking office, I know I won't be. It will be a rerun of Nancy Pelosi between Nov '06 and the swearing in of the Democratic majority. A total reversal of everything promised while on the campaign trail.