Saturday, December 23, 2006

It's official now

According to the Chicago Tribune the generals have rolled over for the Bushoviks and will support an unnecessary "surge" in troops for Iraq without any supporting political strategy change.
Top U.S. military commanders in Iraq have decided to recommend a "surge" of fresh American combat forces, eliminating one of the last remaining hurdles to proposals being considered by President Bush for a troop increase, a defense official familiar with the plan said Friday.

The approval of a troop increase plan by top Iraq commanders, including Gen. George Casey and Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, comes days before Bush is to unveil a new course for the troubled U.S. involvement in Iraq. Bush still must address concerns among some Pentagon officials and overcome opposition from Congress, where many Democrats favor a blue-ribbon commission's recommendation for a gradual withdrawal. But the recommendation by the commanders in Iraq is significant because Bush has placed prime importance on their advice. The U.S. command in Iraq decided to recommend an increase of troops several days ago, prior to meetings in Baghdad this week with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the defense official said.
And now Bushie can pretend he is a fearsomely clever war leader, Crazy Dick Cheney can squeeze more skimmed profits from bloated government contracts, Gen Casey gets his step up in grade when he retires and many more troops and Iraqis will die for no good reason. And all because the Republicans have lost the war in Iraq and just won't admit it.

// posted by montag @ 1:37 PM
Comments:
I certainly couldn't have said it better! And it's too, too bad the MSM isn't saying it (except, of course for the dependable Keith Olbermann and the "only lately- but slightly more dependable than he used to be and still prone to back-sliding" Joe Scarborough)!

Back in the day, before 24/7 "missing young white blonde female" news, Walter Cronkite stood out from the pack. Alas, only people with open minds are watching MSNBC.

The closed-minds are still watching the Neocon-Party-Line/Fox-News-Crap...

Naomi
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 2:05 PM
 

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