The only part aboout the surge that worked was the PR...

"The Surge" was elevtaed to 9/11 status in terms of the PR that was put into it... To most folks who really are clueless abotu the complexities of the Iraq war "The Surge" was strictly about more "boots on the ground"... This is not the real story and it has been simplified for Bubba consumption...

The real story doesn't fit on a bumper sticker so with the average Joe's attention span it's really a story that he can't or won't follow...

The real story is about a shift in strategy away from our troops hiding in the Green Zone at night to setting up base camps in neighborhoods where they could get to know the people and have a presence at night... That could have been done without more boots on the ground... The rst of the story is the Anwar Awakeing which, of course, doesn't fit neatly into you "Surgers" bumper stricker length view of real events... And paying folks not to shoot at us was the 3rd leg of the stool...

This is the real story but, like I said, by the time you tell it, most of America has gone back to watching sports or off to the mall...

That's why the Dems just left it alone... Biden did try to tell the real story in his debate with Ms. Sarah but it was too long to hold the audience... So the Dems just did the expedient thing and recognized that the truth wouldn't fit on a bumper sticker and just relinquished the point...

That's more a commentary on Joe Public than the realities opf the Surge...

Historians will trump the PR people and one day there will be books expalining what happened but right now the PR folks are still riding in 1st place... But that doesn't make them right... Certain lies just have longer shelg lifes... The Surge is one of them...

And in the words of Walter Cronkite, "That's the way it is..."

B~