Not the Onion..'How we won in Iraq'' by David PETRAEUS

[joshcryer]

3. "Iraq today looks tragically similar to the Iraq of 2006"

I don't have the stomach to read that whole thing because he starts talking strategy in a monotone robotic military type of writing style, and I don't know what to say. I skipped to the last page to read his conclusion.

"Iraq today looks tragically similar to the Iraq of 2006"

If Iraq and the Iraqis are to have yet one more opportunity to move forward, they would likely find it useful to revisit the entire array of approaches pursued in 2007 and 2008. It is heartening, thus, to know that some of the veterans of the surge, American as well as Iraqi, are engaged in the effort to help Iraq determine and then pursue the initiatives needed to address the terrible increase in violence in that country. This is a time for them to work together to help Iraqi leaders take the initiative, especially in terms of reaching across the sectarian and ethnic divides that have widened in such a worrisome manner. It is not too late for such action, but time is running short.

If further action is necessary, Petraeus, then we have not "won" in Iraq.

I went back to skim for the surge bullshit, in 2007 and 2008, and it led to many deaths in Americans and Iraqi's alike. He's basically arguing for the Iraqi people to surge and acting as if "that's the winning strategy." What he doesn't understand is that the "surge" led to the current state of unrest in Iraq to begin with. Ethnic cleansing is going on in that country, and the US hasn't won shit.

Read your own fucking words Petraeus. POS war criminal.