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Rep. Mike Simpson, who has supported full funding for the war, jumped on the campaign-season Iraq bandwagon after a recent daytrip to Baghdad. Simpson and other Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee emerged from the trip with high praise for the "surge"-the 2007 escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq that has been credited with either wasting money and lives, helping improve the situation a bit or miraculously redeeming the U.S. mission there, depending on whom you ask.
Travis Sharp, military policy analyst for the Center for 'Arms Control and Nonproliferation, called the embassy project an "inyour-face way" of reminding Arab nations of the U.S. invasion.Simpson said that some of the soldiers he met thought his group might have been with [Barack Obama]. But Obama was on what Simpson called the "rock star tour."See the full content of this document
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Simpson's Surge
Congress has approved more than $656 billion since 2003 toward fighting the war in Iraq, enough to carry U.S. military operations a few months into Barack...
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