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Is McCain's Surge Really Working? No.

By Eric Muller

This from a good friend in the Army's medical corp serving in Iraq: "Anyhow, this second deployment is totally different. . . we are losing Soldiers on the daily! My Unit is operating a Level II TMC here right in the heart of Baghdad and trust me, we have seen every kind and type of injury you can imagine. We are working 7 days a week/ 14 hour shifts. There is only time for sleep and work and nothing much in between." So -- for commentators like Andrew Sullivan -- how many more dead and maimed American Servicemen is enough before he asks, "is the surge really a success"? For the likes of Fox News' Fred Barnes, how many more years of "winning" in Iraq can American servicemen stand? The surge is a failure, whether measured by the non-existent independent Iraqi government McCain -- and Bush -- promised us. Or by American casualties. Sorry . . . . Not a success. Do you hear that Andrew Sullivan . . . McCain is wrong.

Full post as published by Is That Legal on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).