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Bush's Troop 'Surge' Gets Mixed Reviews from GAO

consortiumnews.com — The Government Accountability Office reported that violence in Iraq has dropped over the past year, but that the training of Iraqi security forces still lags, Sunni insurgents have not been defeated, cease-fires with Shiite militias are fragile, and political reconciliation has not been achieved.

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  • bbwolf7, on 07/24/2008, -0/+12FTA: The new GAO report evaluating the “surge” noted that, according to the Department of Defense, “in June 2008, less than 10 percent of Iraqi security forces were at the highest readiness level and therefore considered capable of performing operations without coalition support.”

    According to the report, “The security environment [in Iraq] remains volatile and dangerous. DOD reports that the United States has not achieved its goal of defeating al-Qaeda in Iraq, local security forces (such as ‘Sons of Iraq’) have not reconciled with the central government, and the cease-fire agreement with [al-Sadr’s] Mahdi Army remains tenuous.”

  • IdigObama, on 07/24/2008, -0/+11This is something McShame would not have us know!
  • marabout40, on 07/24/2008, -0/+11John McCain's anthem: "The surge has worked! The surge has worked! I risked a political campaign to win a war! The surge has worked!"

  • MorganMghee, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6So, they just got everything pinned down and are waiting then....
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