Seventeen months before George W. Bush announced that he was sending five additional brigades to Iraq for the 2007 “surge,” a team of officers and civilian analysts gathered in Baghdad to conduct a classified review of America‘s military strategy in Iraq. In a June 2005 speech at Fort Bragg, President Bush had told the nation that the Iraq war was difficult, but winnable. “Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down,” Bush said. “We have made progress, but we have a lot more work to do.”

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