[Justa]

I cite facts, you cite, what a friggin quote about GWI made 10 years before OIF? Do your own research.

It was ~because~ the Surge succeeded that the Democrats cut the funding. They’re LOSERS. That’s ALL THEY DO.

[Alberta's Child]

The U.S. was never going to keep sufficient resources in Iraq to maintain law and order there. The place was destined to be a mess, and by 2007 this country was bankrupting itself with these stupid military campaigns that had no tangible objective.

Those of us who follow these things knew the game was over on March 23rd of 2006, when the U.S. Treasury announced that it was going to cease publishing M3 money supply data.

If and when someone ever writes an objective history of this period, it will be noted that the "surge" was not a military effort at all, and that the military funding for it was effectively hiding a massive bribery scheme involving billions of dollars in U.S. cash that was being printed without being reported, and then funneled to military contractors and tribal leaders in Iraq. Once the cash ran out and the tribal leaders escaped to places like Bahrain and Dubai (we saw signs of this in 2007-08 with major real estate purchases in these places through all-cash transactions using U.S. dollars), the game was over and Iraq's peasant class was left to fend for themselves.