"President Bush should be out here watching this ramp ceremony to see what it is really like," said one soldier, who asked not to be identified.
"The people who created this war need to be thinking about the families of these 18-year-olds who are dying."
it appears that the surge + arming sunni tribal militias = relative calm to one or two provinces. it does not appear if it can bring peace to the entire country. what about an expanded jobs program to rebuild the country, a pull-back to western anbar as usa interest are really in kuwait and saudi arabia, not iraq, and an acceptance of, well, balkanization? we already appear to have accepted ethnic cleansing in baghdad.
