My head is going to explode. My head is definitely going to explode. I’m sending out an S.O.S. to any and all sentient American politicans. Tell me if you can make any sense of this (emphasis mine).
President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad…
…When Mr. Bush gives his speech, he will cast much of the program as an effort to bolster Iraq’s efforts to take command over their own forces and territory, the American officials said. He will express confidence that Mr. Maliki is committed to bringing under control both the Sunni-led insurgency and the Shiite militias that have emerged as the source of most of the violence.
The American officials who described the plan included some who said they were increasingly concerned about Mr. Maliki’s intentions and his ability to deliver. They said senior Bush administration officials had been deeply disturbed by accounts from witnesses to last Saturday’s hanging of Saddam Hussein, who said they believed that guards involved in carrying out the execution were linked to the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia that is headed by Moktada al-Sadr, whose name some of the executioners shouted while Mr. Hussein stood on the gallows.
“If that’s an indication of how Maliki is operating these days, we’ve got a deeper problem with the bigger effort,” said one official, who insisted on anonymity because he was discussing internal administration deliberations over a strategy that Mr. Bush has not yet publicly announced.
Hey, Mr. Administration Official, do ya think?
There is absolutely no reason for Congress to fund this lunacy. I can tell you right now that it will…not…work. I don’t care if McCain says, “It’s just so hard for me to contemplate failure that I can’t make the next step.”
Congress has the power to halt the increases by cutting off money for Mr. Bush’s proposals. But some Democrats are
gutless cowardstorn about whether to press ahead with such a move for fear that it will appear that they are not supporting the troops.
Forget about the appearances. How has funding this war worked out so far? How has it supported the troops? How do things appear to you right now? After 300 billion dollars?
The President’s plan has only one component that will work. This is it:
…supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to…
The rest of that sentence says something about painting schools and cleaning streets (presumably of more than the four dozen headless bodies that litter them each morning). Can we get serious? Can we, as a nation, get serious? I mean, come ON!!
Nobody with a brain wants this escalation.
