A press release from Senator Brownback, including comments he made on the floor of the Senate today:
“The numbers coming out of Iraq indicate that the United States military surge is successfully working,” said Brownback. “Admittedly, I had reservations about the surge at the outset, but my concerns have been proven wrong.”
The statement added that:
In January of 2007, President Bush announced a “surge” troops to Iraq, increasing by 30,000 the number of troops on the ground. U.S. military deaths have decreased by more than 50% since June, and Iraqi civilian deaths have decreased by 50% since August. Sectarian violence also has decreased. Mortar rocket attacks are at their lowest level since February 2006.
True enough, in February Brownback was quoted saying “I don’t support the troop surge,” though he was still targeted by MoveOn.org in a series of commercials aimed at stymieing the president’s plan. Nice work on that guys–think who many more dead Iraqis we could have had over the last six months if only you’d succeeded.
