Like this is news?
The Bush WH has been leaking details about his SURGE™ for weeks. So this report isn't new.
Two fucking words, NEW ORLEANS?
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The first of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops will move into Iraq by month's end under President Bush's new war plan, a senior defense official said Tuesday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) pledged to hold a vote on the increase, which many Democrats oppose.
Details of a gradual military buildup emerged a day before Bush's planned speech to the nation, in which he also will propose a bit over $1 billion to shore up the country's battered economy and create jobs, said a second U.S. official.
Bush is expected to urge friendly Mideast countries to increase their aid to Iraq but will ignore the recommendation of the bipartisan Iraq Study group that he include
Syria and Iran in an effort to staunch Iraqi bloodshed nearly four years after the U.S. invasion, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not yet been announced.
Bush is expected to link the troop increase to promised steps by the Iraqi government to build up its own military, ease the country's murderous sectarian tensions, increase reconstruction and enact a plan to distribute oil revenues among the country's religious sects. [emphasis mine]
Two fucking words, NEW ORLEANS?
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posted by SPIIDERWEB™ at 1/10/2007 09:33:00 AM
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3 Comments:
I don't deny your opinions, as well as the opinions of other Democrats. In fact, I too believe the "surge" (aka last hope of salvaging anything from a failed policy/life) is both pointless and possibly dangerous. But I do think we should be glad that at least something is changing, even if it is for the worse. We've been waiting 3 years for him to shut the hell up with his "stay the corpse" philosophy and finally get off his ass and do something.
I oppose it immensly, but at least something is changing.
Its true any action is better than just slogging along as has been the case, but I fear for the number who will die.
If this doesn't work, and I'm certain it won't, every single death is a waste even more so than earlier ones.
Of course, but the same can be said as a possibility if he increased to 300,000 troops. Or if he decreased the troop levels without withdrawing everyone. Iraq is a catastrophe, and without a complete troop withdrawal which the president will never do, nothing will ever be safer. At LEAST (and I give Bush credit for nothing, ever) changing SOMETHING might... well... change something. Sending an arbitrary number of troops may result in severe casualties, but by starting to change something, hopefully it can lead to change in the long run.
I'm not speaking optomistically. But we're dealing with an idiot... excuse me, a "president"... who has done nothing at all for over 3 years. Nothing.
It's chaos theory. The butterfly flaps its wings, the world goes on one way. But if the butterfly did not flap its wings, the world would be a completely different place. So sending in more troops may result in more American casualties, but maybe changing one thing will result in something else changing in the future.
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