The Surge Got Lucky - Barbara Bodine

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/09/11/Ambassador_Barbara_Bodine_Iraq_and_the_Road_Ahead

Former American Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine argues that the claimed success of the U.S. troop surge in Iraq was largely due to the "luck" of the selection of General David Petraeus to lead the deployment.

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Ambassador Barbara Bodine joins the Council to discuss recommendations for the next administration's policy with regard to Iraq and consider what Iraq's future means for regional stability.

Drawing on over 30 years in the US Foreign Service, Ambassador Bodine is a veteran diplomat with expertise in Middle Eastern affairs.

Her many posts have included Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen, Deputy Chief of Mission to Kuwait during the first Gulf War and the first coalition coordinator for reconstruction of Baghdad after the US invasion in 2003 - World Affairs Council of Northern California

Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine is lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she teaches courses on the Iraq War and on US diplomacy in the Middle East as it relates to the Persian Gulf region and southwest Asia, and also serves as a resource for students interested in careers in public service.

Bodine's over 30 years in the US Foreign Service were spent primarily on Arabian Peninsula and greater Persian Gulf issues, specifically US bilateral and regional policy, strategic security issues, counterterrorism, and governance and reform. Her tour as Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen 1997-2001, saw enhanced support for democratization and increased security and counterterrorism cooperation, the establishment of a coast guard, resumption of Fulbright scholarships for Yemeni students, initiation of a $40 million/year economic assistance and development program, and an indigenous landmine awareness and demining program.

Bodine also served in Baghdad as Deputy Principal Officer during the Iran-Iraq War, Kuwait as Deputy Chief of Mission during the Iraqi invasion and occupation of 1990-1991, and again, seconded to the Department of Defense, in Iraq in 2003 as the senior State Department official and the first coalition coordinator for reconstruction in Baghdad and the central governorates.

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[starmanbridges]

The Surge Got Lucky? The Surge Got Lucky? I'll tell you what got lucky-- Osama got lucky when you got in the way, and railroaded O'Neill.

I cannot f**cking believe how you go on posturing such wisdom and assurance of knowledge, while your own hands took part in carving out America's saddest moment.

I am so distracted by you and everything so troubling you helped create.

[gracer99]

i agree, she's a worthless idiot

[pimprolling2003]

she should be in jail

[dolphinfan0503]

i now you from the mannate school dicturce. i am from bashaw

[GOPsithlord]

As full supporer of the surge this has to be simply the worst explanation of what ocurred to bring about the strategy and luck had little to do with it.

[alaskaproduction]

what the f is she doing there? wtf?

[tubub]

She was removed almost immediately by Rumsfeld and ORHA was replaced by the CPA, lead by the incompetent Paul Bremer.

[curtmastor]

hey fuckhead Id like to see your ass get into one of those super neat Jets with bombs strapped to the wings.......riiiiiggght. Bush may not have been humping through the jungle in SE asia but everytime a MILITARY pilot straps themselves into a WAR PLANE....they are in immense danger. Oh yeah fuck you.

[curtmastor]

Bodine is the biggest disgrace to US foreign service. PATHETIC. She was a huge fucking wrench in the intel aquisition debacle that caused 9/11.

[Blackrain4xmas]

Lemme get this straight, she teaches a course on Iraq, blames post-invasion failures on Rumsfeld even though SHE was in charge of post-invasion planning? AND she thinks Petraeus was in exile, but doesn't know he was picked because HE WROTE THE BOOK on counterinsurgency? What a twit