What the surge really proves is that ethnic cleansing works.

[kpete]

Think we're winning in Iraq? Just drive up to a gas pump
Energy Policy | Iraq | War
by Mike Whitney | August 1, 2008 - 11:34am

The surge has failed. It helped reduce US casualties, but it hasn't produced the political solution that the Bush administration wanted. The Shia-led government, headed by Iraqi President Nouri al Maliki, has demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops. What more proof of failure does one need? 144 of the 275 members of the Iraqi Parliament signed a letter calling for a fixed timetable for the withdrawal of US troops. Also, a recent poll conducted for British Channel 4, showed that 84 percent of Iraqis want the US military to "leave within a year." Again, these are signs of failure not success.

The absence of violence is not proof of success, otherwise, Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of China would be lauded as model governments, but they're not. They are repressive regimes and human rights abusers. The reduction in violence in Iraq is just a temporary lull in the ongoing struggle against foreign occupation. The Sunnis are regrouping under the auspices of the Awakening Council, but their long-range plans remain the same; to retake political power from the al Maliki government and force the US to withdraw.

The spinmeisters in western media have made a big deal out the pause in the fighting and used it as a sign of progress. Progress? Over one million Iraqis have been killed and over 4 million have been either internally displaced or become refugees due to the war. By what perverted standard does the media measure success?

What the surge really proves is that ethnic cleansing works. Baghdad was a city of roughly 65% Sunnis. Now it is nearly 75% Shia. They didn't simply pack up and leave; they were driven out by Shia militias who were provided cover by the US military. The process was chronicled by numerous independent Iraqi journaists. Uruknet.info, one of the few web sites that closely follows developments in Iraq, provided daily accounts of the Shia militias attacks on the various districts in Baghdad as they were taking place. Most of the news was not reported in the western media. The surge was created as part of a public relations campaign to disguise ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. Now the Sunnis have been effectively purged from the capital. That's not a "political solution"; it's a war crime.

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[Submariner]

1. The repukes do not want to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing part

It diminishes their John Wayne-like tough-guy image of defeating the opposition by brute force. This whole POS surge plan was an afterthought to the emerging civil war and ethnic cleansing. When the surge finally got underway, the cleansing was about complete, with the rest fleeing the country.

The repukes are in their last throes of trying to put lipstick on this pig.