"The Surge to Nowhere"
Resources for Debunking Media Myths about Iraq

Every day the anti war movement is challenged to counter the Bush Administration's spin on developments in Iraq. One year ago, we gathered in communities across the country - and across Massachusetts - to protest the “surge” ...and it turns out we were right again! War still isn't working and the "surge" is a misundertood failure for the Iraqi and U.S. people...

United for Peace & Justice has a new leaflet, in both English and Spanish, entitled: “Bush's Iraq Surge: 'Mission Accomplished' This Time?”
You can down load the flyer from their website at: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3843

As the leaflet says, "The surge is a success in only one way. It has shifted debate in the U.S. away from its pre-surge focus on how big a disaster the whole Iraq war is."

(War Times/Tiempo de Guerras helped produce the UFPJ handout and has also produced resources debunking "the surge": http://www.war-times.org )

 Additional resources:

An article by award winning journalist Juan Cole, “Top Ten Myths about Iraq”
http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/top-ten-myths-about-iraq-2007.html

An article by the Washington, DC think tank Center for Americas Progress, which is a sharp critique of the surge going far beyond the Democratic presidential debates on the occupation: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/01/surge_anniversary.html/print.html

A Washington Post op-ed by Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and a former military officer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011802873.html

On UFPJ’s website, you can also listen to a 12/12/07 briefing on the situation in Iraq and the growing crisis for the millions of Iraqis who are internally or externally displaced–, featuring speakers Raed Jarrar an Iraqi-Palestinian working with AFSC's Iraq Project, and Noah Merrill from Electronic Iraq's Direct Aid Initiative. Click here to access an audio recording of this briefing: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3828