Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq: Stay the Course +21,500

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
-Albert Einstein

What does Bush say is different this time? Now the Iraqi Security Forces will be able to crack down on Shiite Militias.

Uh, George, the Iraqi Security Forces ARE the SHIITE MILITIAS!!

This war is so beyond fixing. The new strategy involves putting General David Patreus in charge of the "surge" in Baghdad, because he is the General most adept at counter-insurgency tactics. The imcompetence of this war is astounding. Everything is 3 years too late. Counter-insurgency now!? That would have been nice back when the insurgency started. Now its a civil war. I don't think there are counter civil war strategies, but if there are, you can expect the US military to begin to employ them come 2010. Back on that aircraft carrier in May 2003, Bush WAS right. Major military operations SHOULD have ended. Instead we continued to fight in Iraq as if we were fighting the German's for 3 more years, and scoffed at, and fired, the Generals suggesting counter-insurgency measures to fight a, yes, insurgency. Now that the insurgency has taken a back seat to the full blown civil war, we're ready to use counter insurgency. Bravo.

What would you do if a friends came to you and said, "I need to borrow 10 grand and your dog, I can't tell you why, but we'll probably both die if you don't give it to me." Unconvinced, you lend him the money and custody of your beloved dog anyway, mostly out of fear, and because someone like this wouldn't tell such a huge lie. A week later you you ask him, and he says, "oh yeah, I made it all up. Sorry, I blew all the money in Vegas, and while I was passed out in a strip club, the dog ran out into the street and was killed by a car... By the way, the mafia is after you now, so you're not safe at home any more... Can I borrow some more money, uh, and you're cat?"

You'd probably want to impeach this fucker and have him charged with war crimes.