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Bush Doubts Surge Success

Privately, Bush seeks to lower expectations on the surge—and the prime minister

Apr 28, 07 12:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration is quietly rijiggering its internal expectations for Iraq, senior administration officials have told the New York Times. In spite of a publicly optimistic stance, Bush is already preparing for the possible failure of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's regime and readying to maintain a troop surge well into... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • troop surge • Nouri al-Maliki • war • George W. Bush

Reid Declares War Is Lost  

Rhetorical bombshell fires up pundits, but will policy consequences follow?

Apr 20, 07 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has upped the ante in the Dems' rhetoric on Iraq, saying the U.S. has "lost" in Iraq, and warning that, "the surge is not accomplishing anything." But he stopped short of threatening to pull funding from the war, the biggest gun... More »

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Iraq • troop surge • Democratic Congress • Harry Reid • Senate Democrats • Iraq pullout • Iraq war

Baghdad Blasts Claim Nearly 200 LIives

On bloodiest day since surge, Maliki
promises transfer of power by 2008

Apr 19, 07 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nearly 200 people were killed, and more than 200 injured, by five apparently coordinated explosions that rocked Baghdad yesterday. It was the deadliest day since the U.S. troop surge in the besieged capital, and a chilling backdrop to an announcement by PM al-Maliki that Iraqis will be completely in... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • security • troop surge • Nouri al-Maliki • Sadriya • bombing • explosion

Baghdad No Safer 2 Months Into Surge

As insurgents adapt,  the body count is
rising again

Apr 9, 07 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Baghdad is no more stable than it was before the American troop surge, the Times reports. With death squads trying to stay off the radar, sectarian executions have dropped in some corners of the city. But executions have given way to increased car bombings, chlorine gas attacks, and the burning... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • security • troop surge • force buildup • US troops • violence

Iraq Is Breaking the Army

Inadequate training, gear, hobbles troops

Apr 6, 07 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - The U.S. Army is stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan that it's sending ill-prepared and ill-equipped young people into harm’s way, Time reports. And the surge in troops is only deepening the crisis: Two of the five new brigades bound for the Middle East will skip vital... More »

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Iraq • John Abizaid • troop surge • US troops • US Army • soldier • training • Iraq war

The Surge Is
Our Last Stand 

By the beginning of the coming year, "the Army will begin to unravel"

Apr 3, 07 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - "We are in a position of strategic peril," says a retired general who's just back from Bagdhad in a blunt, sobering piece in the L.A. Times. Barry McCaffrey, now at West Point, urges support of the surge and the new strategy to secure Baghdad without  sugar coating... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • troop surge • US troops • timetable • US Army

Pentagon Exit Strategy Relies on Advisers

Hopes for surge waning, DoD plans to replace troops with teams of advisers

Mar 12, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pentagon top brass preparing an exit strategy for Iraq should the troop surge fail are following the outlines set by the Iraq Study Group, using a small team of military advisers to replace troops as they stand down. It mirrors the strategy the military used in El Salvador in the... More »

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Iraq • Pentagon • troop surge • troop withdrawal • Iraq Study Group • General John Abizaid • Iraq exit strategy

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