The Troop"Splurge"

Sometimes....
I......
Scare......
Me!

So, last Wednesday we had the President tell us what we already knew. He is going to...indeed he has already authprized...a "SURGE." It is specifically NOT an escalation or so sayether no less then Condy Rice. So, this non escalaltion....a mere 21,000 young Americans is not indeed an escalation. We are only going back to about 150,000 troops and we have been as high as 160,000 so it really is not an escalation. It is just a continuation and reinstatement of stupid and...you cant fix stupid.
The whole concept is offensive. Somehow committing 20,000 more people to the fight is going to help the Iraquis "step up" and take over. It is a bad stupid lie told by desperate people in an attempt to salvage what was started and will be finished by a bunch of lies.

This is not a troop surge but an arrogant "Splurge" with the lives of other peoples kids. I do not think that the Preseident should bow to the will of the people when the people are wrongheaded but when the President has an almost unrivaled track record of being wrong at every turn...perhaps the "wisdom of crowds" is something he should pay a little heed to. And I...personally am sick of people saying "well no one has attacked us here in 5 years." That was accomplished when we were doing the RIGHT thing, the American thing, the sensibly agressive thing of going into a country that actually trained the people who attacked us and dismantling them. That is what a strong country is all about. Not this.

His speech Wednesday was a good honest speech. he said it was going to be hard, take a long time and be bloody. If only he would have told us that 4 years ago we might have never let him start this escapade. But real life does not work this way. It ignores the fact that he has less then two years till he is kicked out of the White House and saddles some other poor fool with the mess he leaves and it will be a colossal mess. "Stay The Course." They just never told us how long we would have to stay the course for. They ignored the fact that no occupying force ever wins unless they are willing to occupy mercilessly and criminally and totally subjugate the people there and intermarry with them and...well...one of the GREAT things about our country is that we do not have the heart for this type of shit.

You cannot even speculate about the damage this war has done to our country. We are going to eventually back out of there like embarrassed bullies to the cacophony of cat calls from friends and enemies alike and from all those countries that did not join our "coalition of the willing." I do believe the President had honorable intentions. He truly believed that we could have a stable democracy in the mideast. He truly believed this would change everything. He truly believed the small circle of believers and idealogues around him and fired everyone who disagreed as he lied and justified and kept us walking down this same road and for that history is already judging him harshly. Worst president ever? he gets my vote.