well, the "surge" can be understood as "working" if you leave out the agreement with the mahdi army for a cease fire. but given that the ceasefire seems the more operative condition of possibility for reductions of violence than anything else, mentioning it is a problem for the few remaining supporters of the iraq war because it demonstrates that maybe diplomacy might get more and better results.
but of course such things play out in circular reasoning and this will probably be no exception.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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