Bush must demonstrate he has workable plan for Iraq

[papau]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-01-iraq-bush_x.htm

Analysis: Bush must demonstrate he has workable plan for Iraq
By John Yaukey, Gannett News Service

WASHINGTON — Voting down, security to go. Iraq's first free elections in 50 years now set the stage for President Bush to ratchet up the training of Iraqi security forces and convince Americans he has a viable plan for Iraq, which he is likely to try to do in his State of the Union speech Wednesday.

Without security in Iraq, the exuberance for democracy that Iraqis displayed Sunday while voting will not last. And until Iraqis can fight the insurgency that has plagued their country for more than a year, U.S. troops will have to.

Without tangible signs that the U.S. campaign in Iraq is advancing toward an exit for the 150,000 American troops now there, Americans are likely to grow increasingly discouraged about the war, as polls indicate they had in the run-up to the election.

"The most important thing we can do right now is to get the Iraqi security forces up to speed," said Marine Col. Thomas X. Hammes, an expert on insurgency warfare and author of the acclaimed book on the subject, "The Sling and the Stone." "The Pentagon has said repeatedly they are our ticket out of there."

Bush has said as much as well, but with little detail about how he plans to get it done. <snip>

[cdb]

1. Bush will demonstrate no such thing

He has no plan. It is open-ended. He hasn't had a plan yet, and look how wonderful things are in Iraq!

[peacebird]

2. bush's "plan" is to use the 14 permanent military bases he built in Iraq

as a staging ground for his pre-emptive attack on Iran....

:eyes:

[indepat]

3. Workable, smirkable: get serious

[bemildred]

4. This is drool. Slobber.

The occupation big-shots have been saying "The most important thing we
can do right now is to get the Iraqi security forces up to speed" for a
year now and no forward progress has been made, and there is no reason
to think some brilliant new idea just came to them out of the blue.

The entire problem is that the Shrubites plan is NOT workable.

[teryang]

5. stop the bleeding - end the expedition

The empire's going broke.

Meanwhile insider elites abscond with as much of other people's money and resources as they can while the getting is good. Fuck john q. public, they're all dead in the end anyway.