> gMoney wrote: > Yer fudging. The major factor in decreased violence is the surge.....even > the insurgents have told us that. >
Nope. Now I don't want to start the surge debate again, but here's what I do know: * As troops approach infinity violence shrinks to zero. The problem is, we didn't add infinite troops so we're somewhere nearer 0 troops than infinite troops. So did our addition truly have an impact? Who knows? Anybody that says positively "yes" or positively "no" is ridiculous. For example, maybe the following brought violence to zero and The Surge did nothing. Which is why I so enjoyed McCain calling the surge a strategy, it's a tactic, and pretending it's repeatable, cause it isn't just from a troop perspective, and he's lying or stupid or both for think he knows what's even going on: -- Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday. "By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement. "Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning," said Agnew, who studies ethnic conflict. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080919/sc_nm/iraq_lights_dc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271617 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
