One Year Later: Has the Troop Surge Worked?
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NBC Nightly News
Brian Williams/Jim
Miklaszewski
01/10/2007
01/10/2008
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2008
00:02:05
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NBC's Jim Miklaszewski looks back on the U.S. troop surge, a year after President Bush announced the
new strategy. Violence levels have dropped but the Iraqi government has been unable to meet any of the
political benchmarks laid out by the United States.
Keywords
Iraq War, Iraq, Surge, Al Qaeda, Baghdad, George W. Bush, Robert Gates, Security, Benchmarks, Sunni,
Shi'ite, Warlords
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"One Year Later: Has the Troop Surge Worked?" Jim Miklaszewski, correspondent. NBC Nightly News.
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Miklaszewski, J. (Reporter), & Williams, B. (Anchor). 2008, January 10. One Year Later: Has the Troop
Surge Worked? [Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from
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Transcript
One Year Later: Has the Troop Surge Worked?
BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:
It was a year ago tonight President Bush announced a change of strategy in Iraq. It was called the "surge"
of 30,000 additional American troops. The war continues with a major new US military push this week.
Our Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, has a status report.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI reporting:
US troops on the offensive today against al-Qaeda south of Baghdad, where Air Force bombers pounded
al-Qaeda targets with 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes, one of the biggest air strikes of the war. All
this one year after President Bush laid out a series of benchmarks he predicted would turn around the war.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: (From file footage) The new strategy I outline tonight will change
America's course in Iraq.
MIKLASZEWSKI: Today security has improved dramatically. Overall attacks against Iraqis and
Americans are down 60 percent. But can it be sustained?
Mr. ROBERT GATES (Defense Secretary): Although there has been extraordinary success in improving
the security situation, there will continue to be tough days and tough weeks.
MIKLASZEWSKI: In fact, serious obstacles remain. President Bush said Iraqi security forces would take
over all 18 Iraqi provinces by now, but today control only nine. It will be at least another year before the
Iraqis take over security nationwide.
General BARRY McCAFFREY (Retired, United States Army): What will happen when we do? Can Iraqi
police and the army now maintain internal security? I'm optimistic today, but the jury's out.
MIKLASZEWSKI: On the political front, the Iraqi government has failed to meet any of the benchmarks
laid down by President Bush. Instead, Sunni and Shia factions are gaining their political power at the local
level.
Mr. JON ALTERMAN (Foreign Policy Analyst, Center for Strategic and International Studies): One of
the things that's happening is that the national government seems to me to be getting weaker and weaker,
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and local warlords are getting stronger and stronger.
MIKLASZEWSKI: Still, military officials predict that 50,000 American troops may come home by the
end of this year, leaving 100,000 troops and the rest of the Iraq war to the next administration. Jim
Miklaszewski, NBC News, the Pentagon.
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