When McCain and newscasters talk about the "surge", what are they talking about? What is a "surge"?

Question

Why can't news-reporters ask or have a live-on-air town hall meeting with actual Iraqi citizens and ask them what their opinion of the surge is, what they want or expect from our military, and just let them voice their general concerns? Wouldn't they be much more believeable than any politician or american news-reporter that we have sent overseas? But what the world is a surge?

Answer 1

They did have one but then a unibomber showed up and blew up all the pogo sticks and uni cycles that were parked out side so ever sence then they canceled the meetings.

Answer 2

A surge is a rise, like a wave in the ocean.

From Wikipedia: "The 'troop surge' is a phrase commonly used to describe U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to increase the number of American troops deployed to the Iraq War to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar Province. The two operations in which these troops are participating are called Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (otherwise known as the Baghdad Security Plan) and Operation Phantom Thunder."