The Urge to Surge
by
Wally
8:51 AM
Is there any doubt that Bush has gone completely nuts? Here we are, stuck in a quagmire and despite the total rebuke he received in the November elections, Chimpy McFuckNuts wants to send more men and women into the proverbial meat grinder called Iraq. The addition of 21,500 troops to Iraq is going to do about as much good as an Ann Coulter pap smear.
There are only two ways that the so-called "Victory in Iraq" could even begin to be achieved and that is too either "Go Big" or get the hell out. The idea that you could secure a country the size of California with an army that has a total number of troops equaling the police forces of New York City and Los Angeles combined, is ignorant at best.
While the addition of five brigades may seem like a big escalation of boots on the ground, in terms of war, that number is far too few to stabilize the country. When you factor in command, administrative and support personnel in these brigades, it only breaks down to an additional 5000 troops on patrol at any given time. Or to put it in more layman terms, it increases the number of targets to equal a Shooter Cheney quail hunt.
Being that Bush was going to go to war no matter what anybody said, we should have went in with the troop levels proposed by General Shinseki, only then could we have secured the areas as we moved towards Baghdad. Instead of handing the reconstruction over to Halliburton and Bechtel, we should have put the Iraqi people to work rebuilding their own country.
There is an old saying that Bush should have considered before invading and that is, "idle hands are the Devil's workshop." Do you believe that Achmed really wants to build a bomb after a long day at Camels-R-Us? No, he wants to take a few hits off the hookah, grab a falafel and get a peek at some big toe at the Hummus Strip-O-Rama.
The fact is that we were losing with a higher level of troops than what is now being proposed and no amount of prayer is going to bring about change. Our men and women serving in Iraq need to be redeployed out of harms way and as much as I hate to say it, let the Iraqi's fight it out amongst themselves. Only when there is a clear winner between the factions or the people rise up against the violence like the Irish did will there ever be a chance at peace.
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