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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:40 AM
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The number of cease-fire agreements the US bush regime has with various groups in Iraq.

That is the "surge success".



Violence is down because the U.S. military managed to reach numerous bilateral ceasefire agreements with individual combatant groups. Indeed, over 200 separate negotiated deals are now in effect in Iraq, estimates Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow for defence policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank in Washington.
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/11/06/obama/3/
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:52 AM
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1. Thank god the election is over
and we don't have to keep hearing about the so-called success of the "surge". To express doubt about it before was to be thought a traitor. Sadr had more to do with the decrease in violence than the surge.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:54 AM
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2. That and the wholesale ethnic cleansing that went on for months while the US of A sat and
watched.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 11:09 AM
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3. Many of those "negotiations" were simply cash transactions. n/t
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