McCain: "The surge is working!"
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We're kidding ourselves, if we think this piddly little "surge" is going to fundamentally do anything. It's just getting americans killed:
Unless that's the Bush plan anyway: to tread water, until they can hand their disaster off to another president.
McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq
In Contrast to His Previous Views, Retired General Writes of 'Strategic Peril'
An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David H. Petraeus and 16 other senior U.S. commanders.
There is no function of government that operates effectively across the nation … There is no province in the country in which the government has dominance. … No Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor Ramadi — without heavily armed protection.
In total, enemy insurgents or armed sectarian militias…probably exceed 100,000 armed fighters. These non-government armed bands are in some ways more capable of independent operations than the regularly constituted ISF [Iraqi Army].
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701923.html
Unless that's the Bush plan anyway: to tread water, until they can hand their disaster off to another president.
McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq
In Contrast to His Previous Views, Retired General Writes of 'Strategic Peril'
An influential retired Army general released a dire assessment of the situation in Iraq, based on a recent round of meetings there with Gen. David H. Petraeus and 16 other senior U.S. commanders.
There is no function of government that operates effectively across the nation … There is no province in the country in which the government has dominance. … No Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor Ramadi — without heavily armed protection.
In total, enemy insurgents or armed sectarian militias…probably exceed 100,000 armed fighters. These non-government armed bands are in some ways more capable of independent operations than the regularly constituted ISF [Iraqi Army].
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701923.html