On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Good luck changing the discourse with fact-checking. The best thing you
> can say about The Surge is that it now makes it easier to get out.
Tom Engelhardt had a great piece back in the beginning of the year about how the whole the Surge was to win the PR battle and make it seem like whatever happened after wasn't Bush's fault -- and how with that goal in mind, it was brilliantly conceived and executed:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174882
He compares it memorably with putting make-up on a corpse.
Michael