The Surge: A Revisionist History
Congressman and former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich told Big Think that he doesn’t expect Iraqis to have anything even resembling a positive opinion of the United States. He estimates that at least 1 million innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed in the conflict and says that if it was wrong for Saddam Hussein to kill his own people, then why it is OK for us to kill them?
Kucinich goes on to discuss the reasons for invading Iraq in the first place.
In The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington writes about the media’s amnesia about the reasons for the invasion and subsequent surge. Huffington reminds us that President Bush’s stated goal was to create the breathing room needed for the establishment of an Iraqi government. But now Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain is claiming that the surge has succeeded because of a reduction in violence, even though the goals of a self-sufficient Iraqi military and the reliable production of electricity have not been met.
