George W. Bush and every one of his minions from the peak of Mt. Doom downward have insisted since the inception of "The Surge" that there is and never will be a "Plan B". Of course anyone knows that is "Bullshit".
Of course Bushco. has a Plan B and it's been the endgame of "The Surge" all along. In fact significant, measurable success of the presumptive "Plan A" would have been a surprisingly unexpected inconvenient truth. General Petraeus knows the endgame, Dick Cheney knows the endgame and David Gates knows it because he cribbed it right from the old man's (Bush the Elder) playbook. No one else in Washington is privy to Plan B including Condi because they simply wouldn't get it...this plan makes as much sense to those with the "Bush Gene" as it perplexes those without:
"It wasn’t long ago that many of us criticized the Iraqi parliament for signaling that they would break for summer recess without completing any of their major legislative goals. We were right to do so. They were elected to do a job for the Iraqi people. It would have been irresponsible to leave for a long vacation before that job was done – and as we can see, they still have a very long way to go."
Harry Reid, 2007
Good advice that Mr. Reid's party might do best to heed. You see in three weeks when the Iraqi government goes home to take a break from the backbreaking work of NOT passing laws the fledgling Iraqi Defense Forces will finally find a target they can identify and topple with ease...the Iraqi Government.
A Shiite General will proclaim a "temporary" state of emergency. Al Malaiki and a few noteworthy Shiite and Sunni politicians will be arrested and summarily executed. They will be charged with dispicable crimes against their constituants, most which will be clearly true. They will recieve justice in the swift and remorseless manner in keeping with Arabic custom. No one will mourn their dismiss past immediate friends and family.
Swarms of high profile police, army and judiciary will be frog-marched in front of the now nationalized media (remember all the stories of free media in post-Saddam Baghdad? Even FAUX can't find them anymore...) trumpeting charges of profiteering, torture, kidnapping and murder. Only friends and family will question the truth of these charges and a common thread will begin to weave into the narative...the pervasive influence of Al Qaeda, Syria and Iran.
Officers and NCOs within numerous Iraqi divisions will be rounded up for advanced training in the new paradigm. They will be made aware of the importance of turning in those who would undermine Iraqi "Independence" and "Liberty" to foreign influences...like Al Qaeda, Syria and Iran. They will also be made aware of the risks to friends and family if they don't aren't proactively patriotic. Long lines of informants will result in an endless line of courtsmartialled prisoners who will rot as ransom for tribal obedience to the new order.
Universal sharing of oil profits, order in the streets, ubiquitous water and electricity and the ethnocentric galvanization against Al Qaeda, Syria and Iran will pacify those who are not petrified by this new regime. A new constitution with amazingly western verbiage will be announced without debate only slightly before treaties affording American bases and airspace indefinitely. A benevolent autocrat with a Shiite lineage and a Sunni taste for American influence will crank a tight new seal on the Mesopotamian pressure cooker.
The best part is that it is not a new strategy. The Bush Family Of Fine Politics has been perfecting it throughout the world for decades. Here are some testimonials:
"...It made me laugh, it made me cry...it made me want to hug my kids. If I could ever see them again..."
M. Noriega, FLA
Or this post from beyond:
"...I never could find true inner happiness until I experience dictatorial, autocratic power. You know, force my will upon those who would inconvenience me with torture, like, you know, real torture...real rip nipples off with blue hot vice grips...oh, Jesus, I think I came in my pants...Fuck, it...BLIND THIS BASTARD WITH BLEACH, MADRE FUCKER!!!!"
S. Allende, Chile via Hell
Okay, that's "Plan B". Watch the news and see for yourselves. Maybe Senator Reid should pay more attention to his own words. The Congress of the United States has a duty to make sure "Plan B" wouldn't work against itself:
"It wasn’t long ago that many of us criticized the Iraqi parliament for signaling that they would break for summer recess without completing any of their major legislative goals. We were right to do so. They were elected to do a job for the Iraqi people. It would have been irresponsible to leave for a long vacation before that job was done – and as we can see, they still have a very long way to go."