Escalation: FAILURE X 4

[Tuesday_Morning]

A little refresher...Little Lord Pissypants proposal would make this the 5th major surge in Iraq!

1. Massive Troop Rotations December 2003-April 2004
+15,000
This increase did nothing to prevent Muqtada al-Sadr's Najaf uprising and April of 2004 was the second deadliest month for Americans. - Brookings Institution

2. Constitutional Elections and Fallujah November 2004-March 2005
+12,000
No long-term security benefit - Brookings Institution


3. Elections and Constitutional Referendum September-December 2005
+22,000
While the elections went off without major violence these escalations had little long-term impact on quelling sectarian violence or attacks on American troops. - Brookings Institution


4. Operation Together Forward June-October 2006
+25,000
By October, a U.S. military spokesman, Gen. William Caldwell, acknowledged that the operation and troop increase was a failure and had "not met our overall expectations of sustaining a reduction in the levels of violence."

5. Operation SAME DAMN THING January 2007


Link w/ some interesting graphs, stats and additional links here : http://www.nsnetwork.org/node/116

[fooj]

1. Thanks for the post. Great info...

[Tuesday_Morning]

2. thanks

and h/t to edgery at Dkos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/10/144728/897