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</html><description>Sullivan. The point of the &#x201C;surge,&#x201D; as originally sold by Bush and the Kagans who thought it up, was to put a crapload of troops in and around Baghdad so that the parties could have some room to work out their problems over tea. The craploads of troops did indeed reduce the violence like basic &hellip;</description><thumbnail_url>https://balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tunchiswatching.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>2048</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>1536</thumbnail_height></oembed>
