PENTAGON REPORT ADMITS SURGE IS A BUST

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ANN SCOTT TYSON WASHINGTON POST - Three months into the new U.S.
military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops
into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased,
as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American
forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other provinces, according
to a Pentagon report.

Iraqi leaders have made "little progress" on the overarching political
goals that the stepped-up security operations are intended to help
advance, the report said, calling reconciliation between Shiite, Kurdish
and Sunni factions "a serious unfulfilled objective." Indeed, "some
analysts see a growing fragmentation of Iraq," it said, noting that 36
percent of Iraqis believe "the Iraqi people would be better off if the
country were divided into three or more separate countries."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/13/
AR2007061302357.html?nav=rss_nation


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