In the context of the Iraq War, the surge refers to United States President George  W. Bush's ... He also extended the tour of most of the Army troops in country and  some of the ... The President stated that the surge would then provide the time  and .... Senturion predicted that "increased coalition military strength in Iraq  would ...
Apr 21, 2016 ... Clinton singled out, as she often would, the United Nations ... Stanley  McChrystal's recommendation to send 40,000 more troops to ... He decided there  and then that she was someone he could do business with. ..... Senate office in  January 2007, Keane tried to sell her on the logic of a troop surge in Iraq.
Oct 14, 2008 ... Debate's foreign policy focus gives McCain advantage, Obama camp says ....  And he wrote out another letter, and that was a letter of resignation from the ... is  rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption -- or certainly failure to carry out  our ..... we still have more troops in Iraq than we did before the surge.
Mar 30, 2016 ... Obama Promised to End America's Wars—Has He? ... to dispatch military  advisers to Nigeria against the jihadist group Boko Haram ... initiatives than it did  under Bush: $866 billion under Obama compared with $811 billion under Bush.  ... due to a surge in troop levels in Obama's first term, the president has ...
Jul 4, 2014 ... He granted al-Qaeda sanctuary on the condition that it not antagonize ... But as  the Pentagon withdrew the surge troops in 2012, further drew down its ... U.S.- Taliban talks have not fared better than those carried out by Kabul. ... But while  the insurgency remained formidable, the Taliban failed at one of its ...
First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge.