Ok. You know how McCain loves to ramble on about how the "surge" has worked to reduce violence in Iraq? Well...this would be funny, except that it isn't, at all.
A new study of satellite images shows evidence that "the surge" was not the key factor in the violence dropping off. What was? Two words that should cut like knives to the spirit of anyone who loves freedom; hates tyranny & repression:
Ethnic cleansing.
heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.
"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.
"Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, except insofar as it has helped to provide a seal of approval for a process of ethno-sectarian neighborhood homogenization that is now largely achieved," Agnew's team wrote in their report.
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