Nonsense. If Bush had listened to Gen. Shinzeki's advice before the invasion to send half a million troops to secure the peace, there wouldn't have been this mess to begin with. And the surge worked primarily because Al-Sadr disappeared and Sunni jihadists had started turning against Al-Qaeda, and then were paid by US taxpayers to keep the peace in their neighborhoods. The "secret weapon" that actually did the job is most likely this "appeasement" of Sunni jihadists.

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