Robert Naiman: Basra Assault Exposes Fraud of "National Reconciliation" in Iraq
Mar 28, 2008 - Critics of the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq have charged that the Bush Administration's "surge" policy has failed, since its stated intention was to improve security to create the political space for "national reconciliation" in Iraq. Since national reconciliation has not taken place in Iraq, the surge has failed.
Indeed, it was only on Monday that I wrote: "[The conventional wisdom…

