http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_070613_how_many_will_bush_a.htm. . . as if the two bills he's pressing Iraq's parliament to pass would somehow end the violence and cause him to bring our troops home.
The Iraqi junta will never stop asking for more blood from our soldiers to defend their puppetry. All the resistance has to do to keep our forces bogged down in Iraq, most of them inviting targets, is keep up the killing. That's all they have to do, so long as Bush refuses to allow our soldiers to walk away. They'll just keep picking at our forces to elicit the predictable bravado from Bush as he tells them to bring it on from his protected bubble thousands of miles away . . .
Today finds the head puppet Maliki proposing yet another mission for our soldiers that the Iraqis should damn sure be doing themselves. Prime Minister Maliki has asked the U.S. commander in Iraq to send 'troop reinforcements' to Samarra where combatants have blown up the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine.
Aside from the apparent aim of those involved in the shrine bombings to stoke further unrest in the Shia community, there is the obvious goal of drawing the U.S. even further into the middle of Iraq's civil war to entice even more Iraqis to active and violent resistance to the propped-up Maliki regime's manufactured authority.
As if on cue, Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, former head trainer of the Iraqi forces, informed Congress yesterday that Iraq's military was short some 20,000 soldiers, owing to the more than 14,000 who were killed and the thousands of Iraqis who've abandoned their posts. Not surprisingly, Dempsey sees the U.S. military deeply involved in Iraq for years if we expect to ensure the cobbled government remains in power.