http://consortiumnews.com/2014/06/19/reviving-the-successful-surge-myth/

Reviving the ‘Successful Surge’ Myth

June 19, 2014

Exclusive: The military offensive by Sunni extremists driving into the heart of Iraq has brought the neocons out of the shadows to blame President Obama, by arguing that they had “won” the war before Obama “lost” it, a deeply engrained false narrative of Official Washington, says Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry