Bush Contradicts Gates, Says It?s ?Too Early To Judge? Effect Of Escalation

thinkprogress.org — Pentagon reports that suicide bombings across Iraq have doubled since January, overall violence "has increased in most provinces," and "civilian casualties rose slightly, to more than 100 a day." Today, however, the President attempted to dismiss the Pentagon's conclusions, saying that U.S. forces "haven?t even started the full surge yet" ... Jun 15, 2007 View in Crawl 4