The troop surge won't bring peace!

David Byrne
Meath Ogra Shinn Fein

The U.S Army, now over three and half years in Iraq, are now expecting George Bush's scheme to take place. The plan, which will ''bring peace to Iraq'', will add 20,000 - 30,000 troops to the already large number based in the war-torn country, 145,000.

These additional soldiers are expected to regain Baghdad, a city with a population of over 7 million. The excuse for the U.S Army failure of the suppression of the Iraqi Resistance is that there was never enough troops in the first year of occupation.

The almost public execution of Saddam has not yet silenced the resistance at work in Iraq either. Al Qieda are putting up stiff competition to the civilian killing also waged by the forces of America and Britain.

The recent report by the Iraq Study group revealed that 61% of the Iraqi people supported attacks on US led forces. Occupation leads to resistance. More troops leads to MORE resistance.

The sunni resistance, who are recruiting young men off the streets, are unlikely to ever back down untill the occupation is ended. The US government has shown a catastropic inability to learn from its mistakes in Iraq.

The only way the conlict will end is a complete withdrawal of U.S and British troops from the country.

Armed resistance and otherwise, cannot be beaten.

As seen in Eire.