My apologies if this has been diaried sometime during the previous weeks and I missed it. During the previous two months, following the wonderful defeat of the republicans in Congress, we have been informed of a need for a 'surge' of troops in Baghdad and outlying regions. The people of this nation are no longer supportive of this needless debacle called Iraq. This was all Bush and his cronies, enabled by those in the Congress without the courage to vote against this criminal act. After January 2007, we finally have a Congress with some courage and a lady in charge who is more diplomatic than Condi Rice!
Now, we are being asked to let the 'surge' have a chance to succeed. This may allow the Iraqis the 'breathing space' needed to find a way to peace. This, after an attempt on the life of a Deputy Prime Minister by a member of his own security detail just yesterday and the close explosion of a mortar round when the Secretary General of the United Nations was visiting two days prior. I do not believe anything good will come of this 'surge'; we will just lose more precious American and Iraqi lives. My belief is based on my knowledge of insurgencies; it is very easy for them to 'go to ground' or 'blend' with the indigenous population. It is for this very reason I find the impact of the 'surge' to be hollow.
King George asks us for our patience to allow the 'surge' time. He asks for something he was unwilling to give to the world and the United Nations during early 2003. He is asking for something he was unwilling to demonstrate himself from September 2002 until March 2003. Except for the United States and Israel, the populations of the rest of the world, even those of the 'coalition of the willing', wanted George Bush to show some patience and allow the United Nations and Blix more time to either show WMD or lack of it (Bush and his cronies knew there was not any WMD in Iraq so he could not allow this). Bush the decider brushed aside the world and the desire for more time; I say we return it in kind!