Bush on surge in 2007: ‘Failure in Iraq should be unacceptable to the civilized world’
Special to WorldTribune.com James S. Robbins In early 2007, then-Senator Barack Obama was pushing a plan to pull U.S. forces out of Iraq and abort the “surge” strategy that had yet to take hold and end the raging sectarian struggle. President George W. Bush believed that a precipitate U.S. troop pullout would lead to increased […]