January 11, 2007
The Surge
- ABC News has learned that the "surge" Bush is expected to announce in a prime time speech tonight has already begun. Ninety advance troops from the 82nd Airborne Division arrived in Baghdad Wednesday.
An additional battalion of roughly 800 troops from the same division are expected to arrive in Baghdad Thursday. Eighty percent of the sectarian violence occurs within a 30-mile radius of Baghdad, so that is where most of the additional troops will be concentrated.
Whoa. 80% within a thirty mile radius? The way it's reported, I thought the whole country was going to shit.
Tip to Dan Riehl.
Iraq Posted by AlexC at January 11, 2007 12:19 AM
To that end,..my only major criticism in promoting General Patraeus is how he "rebuilt Mosul."
Unfortunately, what isn't reported in all of this feel-good news is that Mosul is in the Kurdish north. The Kurds had it good under our "no-fly zones" and still look to the US as an ally against Saddam's Ba'athists.
Cleaning up Mosul's insurgency is nothing compared to what's going on in Baghdad, but I wish the general well.
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