One Little Victory

So he did it again… General Patreaus tried to paint the failed surge as some kind of “fragile” success.

Bushit.

The surge was predicated on the influx of troops buying time for the Iraqi government to make political progress. That hasn’t happened. Despite Ambassador Ryan Crocker’s claims to the contrary, the Iraqi government would fold like a cheap tent if the U.S. were to withdraw… whether in five days, or another five years… nothing has been done to truly heal the wounds of what everyone but the administration recognizes as a civil war. And the violence, while slowed, is still ever present and of late has been an increasing problem, particularly for American troops. Oh, and do you remember those eighteen “benchmarks”? Exactly four of them have seen substantial progress. And Patraeus wants us to wait, once again, until September.

The monkey continues to throw shit, believing we will think it is bananas.

Here’s the real scoop, General. We had no strategy going into the war and, five years later, still have no frakking clue about how we are going to get out of it. This administration has been hell-bent on making this war someone else’s problem and, thanks to the lack of courage in Congress, it will succeed in this quest. And the Republicans are banking on the election of John McSame, so that we can have have a third term of this nonsense.

Our troops continue to die. Iraqi citizens continue to die. And General Patreaus keeps feeding bushit to Congress, so that this administration doesn’t have to face up to the reality of its own sins.

Petraeus: Return to ‘pre-surge’ troop levels, then wait

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iraq is making “fragile but reversible” progress on security, but it’s too early to set dates to pull out all U.S. troops, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq told Congress on Tuesday.

Gen. David Petraeus said the number of troops should return to “pre-surge” levels this summer, but the military should gauge conditions before making further decisions.

After the 20,000 troops sent during last year’s surge are withdrawn, by July, the military should wait 45 days before deciding on more reductions, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“This approach does not allow establishment of a set withdrawal timetable,” he said. “However, it does provide the flexibility those of us on the ground need to preserve the still fragile security gains our troopers have fought so hard and sacrificed so much to achieve.”

There has been “significant but uneven progress,” Petraeus said, but recent violence shows the progress is “fragile but reversible.”

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