{"article":{"id":219328,"heading":"Who's Really Running Iraq?","author":"Patrick Cockburn","created":"2008-08-08 10:18:27","modified":"2008-08-08 11:13:32","last_modified":"Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:13:32","article":"<p>Home Truths You'll Never Read in the Press <br><br> Patrick Cockburn is a journalist who has served in Baghdad and Iraq for years. <br><br> to read Patrick Cockburn's article published on: www.informationclearinghouse.info, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article20423.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article20423.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The success of `the Surge' is becoming almost received wisdom in the US. This is strange since, if the US strategy did win such an important victory, why do American generals need more soldiers, currently 147,000 of them in Iraq, than they did before `the Surge' started?","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/08\/219328.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}