The final contingent of US troops in the "surge" against Iraq's resistance deploys today amid deepening gloom in Washington at the military's failure to reduce violence and defeat the insurgency.
The latest arrivals take up their positions as the Pentagon released the first hard assessment of President George Bush's gamble in stepping up the war in Iraq. The report, a comprehensive statistical analysis of the three months from mid-February to mid-May, reveals failure on most fronts in Iraq and no overall decrease in violence that the President had hoped for.
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