Comments on Darcy's Plan of Attack
IIRC, Bush only listened to the generals who already agreed with him. The ones who said they needed something other than what the White House wanted were forcibly retired.
Please don't credit the "surge" with temporarily quelling the violence in Iraq. The surge is largely coincidental. More likely, Muqtada al-Sadr's decision to stand down the Sadr brigades for 6 months has more to do with it. If he gets bored or pissed with the status quo, he can start the violence back up again just as easily as he stopped it, surge, or no surge.
And yes, Reichert is a complete retard for simply deferring to the military to make decisions. Clearly someone forgot to tell him that civilian oversight of the military is one of the specific tasks of our national elected officials. It's his job.
What a dipshit.
Don't forget that a large part of the surge's "success" has rested on our weekly payment to "the enemy" not to shoot at us and blow us up.
sincerely,
diggum
I think we have to worry about McCain/Bush not knowing that the Iranians are Shiites and the Saudis are Wahhabis, IMHO.
And that 90 percent of all the funding and volunteers for al-Qaeda worldwide come from Saudi Arabia ...
Bribes to Sunnis are the least of our worries.
If there's to be no civilian oversight of the military, we might as well be living under a military junta.
And they'll be wrong in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018... etc, etc.
It's possible, perhaps likely, that Bush did heed the generals' advice and that the generals were right. Bush just asked if the then current level of troops were enough to allow the situation to go from bad to worse to holyfuckingmotherofgod.
What's the point of protesting anything these days? The Bushies will do whateverthefuck they please, and Americans will carry signs, then the Bushies will continue to do whateverthefuck they please. No one listens to anything but money and violence these days.
Images and video from Dan Savages' glorious war on Iraq.
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2 and 3 are right. any cease fire is more effective than more war.
Get your facts straight, the surge didn't "work", the fighting died down because al'sadir had a 6 month cease fire, which has no expired and his people are just chomping at the bit to start the fighting again.
Oh yeah, the surge was real successful.
mmm hmmmm
thats why all the sudden, bombings are happening right and left all over.
Came here to make one point/reminder, but it was done by #1.
Other point:
Wasn't just a surge in troop levels, but a change in strategy. Actually going out and, you know, policing.
That we sat on our duff for three years and didn't do that is, well, perhaps criminible. And should be hung around the neck of this administration, perhaps.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, all Republicans are super competent manly man warriors who know all about national security, so stop asking questions or making suggestions.
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