so you beleive some of the sucess of the surge, which here to fore they have bascially denied and pooh poohed is due to iranian policy pulling back?

I mean her grasp if the situation seems so infantile anyway, its hard to debate someone with a hyper partisan views of the events in any case. Basra is just a piece of the surge, I'd say her generalization is off based and a gross mischaracterization. Last year fallujah, ramadi where virtual no go zones. How significant is the Iranian influence there?

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