20,000 Dead-Enders - The Nation

Ari Berman
Thu May 26,10:39 AM ET

Virtually everything the US military has said about the Iraqi insurgency has been untrue. Maybe that's because - as a new report from the Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA) shows - US military actions aimed at defeating the insurgency have served the exact opposite purpose by boosting its size and energizing its recruiting base.

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