First internal assessment of escalation negative.

[babylonsister]

Let me guess; they will need more time to make it work.:thumbsdown:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/world/middleeast/04surge.html?ei=5088&en=74f08f5ec541678a&ex=1338609600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal
Scott Nelson/World Picture Network, for The New York Times

By DAVID S. CLOUD and DAMIEN CAVE
Published: June 4, 2007

BAGHDAD, June 3 — Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city’s neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.

The American assessment, completed in late May, found that American and Iraqi forces were able to “protect the population” and “maintain physical influence over” only 146 of the 457 Baghdad neighborhoods.

In the remaining 311 neighborhoods, troops have either not begun operations aimed at rooting out insurgents or still face “resistance,” according to the one-page assessment, which was provided to The New York Times and summarized reports from brigade and battalion commanders in Baghdad.

The assessment offers the first comprehensive look at the progress of the effort to stabilize Baghdad with the heavy influx of additional troops. The last remaining American units in the troop increase are just now arriving.

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[Toots]

1. and we are only talking one city here...

The rest of the country is not even mentioned..

[Hubert Flottz]

2. General Peter Puff says we're doing great.

I think he might be a loyal Bushie though.

[bigtree]

3. the more Bush escalates, the worse it gets

clue