Thursday, January 11, 2007
President George W Bush will today tell sceptical Americans he will send about 21,500 extra US troops to Iraq
Senior administration officials say 17,500 troops would go to Baghdad and 4,000 to volatile Anbar province, with the first wave of troops expected to arrive in five days.
Others will come in additional weeks, joining about 130,000 already in Iraq.
Under the plan, the Iraqi Government will deploy additional Iraqi troops to Baghdad with a first brigade deploying on February 1 and two more by February 15.
Mr Bush will acknowledge sectarian violence “overwhelmed the political progress that we expected” and will “make clear our current strategy in Iraq is not working,” a senior administration official said.
One official says President Bush believes there is a need to “muscle up to step back.”
They expect that by August, they can gauge whether the strategy is working.
"Needless to say, the president is correct. Whatever it was he said." . Donny Rumsfeld
"I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it. I read eight headlines that talked about chaos, violence, unrest. And it just was Henny Penny — 'The sky is falling.'" Our Donny again.
"I don't do quagmires." "I don't do diplomacy." "I don't do foreign policy." "I don't do numbers." "I don't do predictions." Our Donny again and again and again.
How much must George be missing the perceptive, incisive, straight shooting Rumpy Pumpy?!
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the 21,500.
(With apologies to Alfie Tennyson.)
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