On January 10, 2007, faced with a failed war in Iraq, President George W.Bush announced his decision of what was billed at the time as a temporary "surge" of U.S. troops into Iraq. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (who is a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency) told Congress shortly after the President announced his decision (Mr. Bush's decision ignored the advice of the expert Iraq Study Group) that he expected the surge "to last a matter of weeks certainly not months."
The American people were stampeded into war with Iraq. Now we are being lied to for purposes of continuing a failed war. Bush's "surge" was not temporary. It was a major escalation of the Iraq war, and it will last years or decades (according to Gen. David Petraeus) not weeks or months. ~~~cont'd below~~~
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