--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/31/07 2:04:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > point of the surge was to give the Iraqi government > breathing room to make some political progress. > > Parliament has just adjourned for the month of August, > having accomplished ZILCH. > > That was in the news, MDixon. I guess you must have > missed it. > > > > > > Nope didn't miss a thing. No political compromises yet but 60 pieces of > legislation passed. Killings, executions and bombings are down. Sunnis are > turning on Al Qaeda and working with Coalition forces for a change. The Democrats > have a lot invested in the failure of the surge. If it works they look very > bad.
It is such a cynical view from both sides to use the death of men, women and children as a political pawn to score points. really sickening and cold-hearted. Whether the surge "works" or not, I just want this damned war to be over soon, and for us as a country to recognize that it has solved nothing.:-)
