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Article: Republican National Committee: Why Can't Obama Admit the Obvious? The Surge Worked From USA Today
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Republican National Committee, +1-202-863-8614
WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is
an editorial issued by the Republican National Committee:
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/RNCLOGO)
[P
]resident Bush's announcement that month that he planned to
"surge" more than 20,000 extra U.S. troops into Iraq felt to many
critics, including Sen. Barack Obama, like doubling down on failure.
A year and a half later, though, violence is down dramatically
and there's a cautious hope that both the U.S. and Iraq could
achieve an outcome once seemed out of reach.