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Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs: "Some day, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term 'surge' - as in US President George W Bush's 'surge' plan (or 'new way forward') announced to his nation in January - was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam War era. As there were to be no 'body bags' (or cameras to film them as the dead came home), as there were to be no 'body counts' ('We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team' was the way Bush put it), as there were to be no 'quagmires', nor the need to search for that 'light at the end of the tunnel', so, surely, there were to be no 'escalations'. "

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