October 28, 2010
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9:45Now PlayingRobert Parry, founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com, discusses the other factors besides the "surge" that led to decreased violence in post-2007 Iraq, why it's still important to fight the conventional surge narrative that elevated Gen. Petraeus's career and influenced strategy in Afghanistan and how the rigid neoconservative ideology of Bush administration policymakers significantly delayed a truce with the Sunni Awakening groups.
MP3 here. (2006)
Robert Parry is an investigative journalist who won the George Polk Award in 1984 for reporting on the Iran-Contra affair and uncovering Oliver North's involvement in it. He is the founder and editor of ConsortiumNews.com and author of Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
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