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when john mccaine was in iraq last he stated the surge was working, while surrounded by hundreds of US military and paid mercenaries with blackhawk helicopters fly overhead ready to blow up the slightest threat while wearing a flak jacket. i found it very unconvincing. maybe if he walked ten blocks without sercurity i would believe him. now barack obama is to see for himself, luckily cause i wouldn’t believe a word from the current US administration which has continually lied about the war on terror.
iraq has become a country of barriers designed to keep sunni and shia neighbourhoods apart. if these barriers were to come down iraq would erupt in violence.
now in a US election year the spin is spewing forth about the sercurity in iraq .

still lets see mccain walk ten block by himself. security in iraq is a joke. iraq has become a island of ‘green zones’ in a sea of ‘red zones’.
i hear in the media that the surge is working. what from total utter failure to just a failure now. how low have the standards become.
i have never been to iraq but know that it has become very unsafe. you don’t have to be there to know that. for a US leader its about as safe now for him/her as it was a year or two ago, when your surrounded by troops .

the iraqis are not killing one another as much, but the resistance is still active wanting a end to occupation. it is still a dangerous place. one of the main reason the sercurity has improved is a change in policy. iraqis are now employed to help rebuild the country instead of foriegn workers. paul bremer was a disaster. it was bremer policies and his’ free fraud zone’ which upset the locals and thus caused a good part of the violence. remember the voilence only got out of hand after 10 month after overthrowing saddam, when foriegn workers began to be targeted and eventually forced to leave.
now the policies have changed and bremer is no more things are improving, not solely because of the surge..

really it doesn’t matter if it was bremer or rumfield. it was both . it was bremer as the top official in iraq at the time who was signing new laws designed to fully privatize the iraqi economy[ recieving his orders from the dept. of defence] ,which caused the blowback. basically the iraqis rejected the radical free market policies of the BUSH adminisatration.- i think they call it ‘ideological blowback’. once these policies had changed, so did the violence for the better.but as i said it was not solely cause of the surge.

absolutely right. but it wasn’t just the surge. the surge by itself without the change of policy would have accomplished zero.but it is always reported as if it was the surge that only bettered the sercurity.
now the USA should totally withdraw from iraq asap. the occupation is the main reason the insurency is strong.and i do not think the radical muslim element will take over government either. hopefully barack obama will relies this during his visit.