The news keeps “reporting” on how the surge is working. Well, no shit it’s working. You send soldiers and Marines into Iraq without enough man power to do their jobs properly and things go poorly. You increase the troop levels and their performance improves.

They sent 300,000 troops into Iraq initially and downgraded that to around 150K soon thereafter. Almost a million troops were deployed in 91 during the Gulf War and we didn’t even plan to sack and hold Baghdad. fucking Rumsfeld wanted to only send 60K troops.

Why aren’t news outlets reporting on this and not just regurgitating what politicians say about the surge?