Representative Charles Boustany (R-LA), just back from Iraq, asserted on CNN that as a result of the surge "some major improvements" are being witnessed in Iraq. His experiences have inspired me to develop a sure-fire strategy for winning in Iraq.
On CNN Late Edition, Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) attempted to show that the surge is working by pointing out to Wolf Blitzer "...that just two or three months ago, I would have never thought that four members of Congress would be able to walk through the streets of Fallujah". When Blitzer responded "you had a lot of security with you," Boustany acknowledged he was accompanied by "a platoon of Marines."
I want to thank Rep. Boustany. His experience in Iraq has inspired me to create a new winning strategy for Iraq which will fulfill Bush's benchmark of sending more troops in to quell the violence, to give the reconciliation process further time to advance.
I like to call it the "Super Duper Surge."
Since surge improvements permitted Boustany and three other representatives to visit Fallujah accompanied by only a platoon of Marines, I am confident that if we similarly provide a platoon of Marines for every 4 Iraqi citizens, the entire country will be secured very quickly. Assuming there are 25 million Iraqis and 40 Marines in a platoon, we only need 6.25 million platoons (or 250 million Marines) to bring peace and democracy to Iraq.
(Please excuse me if my numbers are approximate, I don't have precise figures for how many Iraqis have been killed or fled the country in 2007. It could take as few as 200 million or as many as 300 million Marines to provide the necessary security.)
Skeptics may ask "where we are going to get the 250 million Marines?" No problem. We will hire mercenaries. I'm sure Blackwater, Bush's private army, will come to our aid and if we need even more troops, then Halliburton can create a new subsidiary just for that purpose.
And if Iraqis don’t like the way we provide security, our mercenaries, not bound by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or international law, will know what to do with them.
You may think my plan is unrealistic. If so, in order to provide a basis for comparison, I refer you to Rumsfeld and the neocons' plan for the invasion of Iraq. It intentionally disregarded Centcom and State Department plans for the governance of post-hostilities Iraq, relying instead on joyous liberated Iraqis, to spread flowers at the feet of our troops, and then spontaneously take over for the vanquished Saddam Hussein government.