What can we say about this President. He’s starting to recognize things are out of hand in Iraq, but he’s repeating the tired mantras of a counterinsurgency strategy that apply to a normal government with adequate troops to a situation where we have a death squad dressed up as a government and woefully inadequate numbers of troops (theirs and ours).
A little free association seems in order.
Too little too late.
Chasing his losses.
We’ve tried this before . . . and failed.
There is no Iraqi government.
20,000 is not enough and too many . . . at the same time.
We may be attacking Iran soon.
Bush is simulating taking responsibility for his failures.
Just because failure is a bad thing, doesn’t mean we’re not failing.
We don’t succeed just by sticking around . . . we just delay the inevitable.
This is a mix of “clear hold and build” with a small concession to “taking the gloves off.”
This is not a new strategy; it’s the old one, with more targets.
The whole thing is a farce in light of the sectarian spectacle of Saddam’s execution.
The Sunnis have no reason to work for this Iraqi government, which will soon be genociding them.
The Shias have little reason to work with us, as their methods of ethnic cleansing will be more efficient.
We’ll be gone in two or maybe three years, and the result will be just as bad.
Democrats couldn’t do better, but that doesn’t excuse Bush.
We’ve had 160,000 troops before . . . we can’t sustain that level, and things always go to pot anyway because we need 2-300,000 troops, which we don’t have.
This isn’t the last chance, that was in 2003 or 2004 at the latest.
I now understand visceral Bush-hatred.
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