[fintstone]

Originally posted by tabs
1. I have said before GW is gona "Stay the Course" and hand it off to the next prez to solve. Is this new stratedgy just another version of stay the course?

2. I would think that Cheney etall would be a devious lot, but after seeing how they planned the war so far, I just don't know anymore. Assuming that they have a trick or two up their sleeves, my guess is that if Maliki doesn't perform GW will get someone who can, namely Hakim. Then bye bye Democracy hello Dictatorship. My bet would be that Maliki is not able to live up nor really wants to live up to the new plan.

3. If Saudi, Jordan, Egypt and several of the other Gulf States goes to war with Iran, the US will back our allys and go to war with Iran as well. A new Carrier Battle group has just been deployed to the Gulf if U all recall.

4. Unless GW has a trick up his sleeve he is going to go down as one of the worst US Presidents, probably right next to LBJ. If the Iraqi war sinks the US he will be at the very bottom. GWs reliance on the Iraqis to stand up is ludicrious on face value.

Back to the original question, Tabs is right. It is a trick. Over the past 6 months, We have pulled 28, 000 troops out of Iraq. Our surge will add 20,000. All along, the liberals have pushed to increase troops....now they have to advocate the status quo (which was all the President ever asked) or cut and run. He has Mccain on board now and the Iraqi government and the liberals in the US are stuck with new, tougher tactics both against the terrorists in Iraq as well as Iran and Syria. This buys us time to do what we have planbned all along...and to "stay the course."