The General is an honorable American, ..But he is no fool he and the administration focused the surges military goals on those military objectives that were most attainable and in the end would not harm their plan to remain entrenched in the area.

Examples of this are-
1) In Anbar their successes politically were already attained before the surge
2) Keeping casualties low was a major political concern and a simply matter of keeping his troops away from hot spots. mainly focused on local base security and a show of force in a predictable peaceful Anbar

This, in my humble is a very correct strategy if you plan to stay the course of 5 years. However allot can happen in 5 years as past insurgencies have proved.
In the end is it worth our boys lives and trillion dollars?

To sustain his illegal occupation he is offering young men $20,000 tax free dollars to enlist or reenlist. It makes for his best effort to send the poor and under privleged to fight this Quagmire!!

There was even talk about giving Illegal Immigrants citizenship if his Immigration bill passed and they enlisted.

The Army has met or exceeded their quota the last two months due to buying an Army!

I served my country for twenty four years through two war’s and a cold war. When I first enlisted in 1949, My base pay was $75.00 a month, so I did not serve for fiscal purposes.

G.W. Bush is by far the most catastrophic thing to happen to this country, Far exceeding 9/11 of which I still believe he knew was coming.

I say this because of his Knowing about the first plane to hit the tower before going into the school and saying ” Must have been a bad pilot”, Then when being informed of the second plane, SAT ON A CHILD’S CHAIR FOR SEVEN MINUTES BEFORE GOING TO AF1 AND FLYING WEST, NOT EAST!!!

You rightwing nut’s who adore DUMBYA (25%) have been brainwashed. You are the same kind of people whom the Chineese were able to brainwash during the Korean War!!!!

Lest we forget, 30,000 + dead and wounded young American’s. At least 100,000 Iraqi men, women and CHILDREN dead.

In the word’s of Senator Hagel, “For What”!!!!!!!

But doesn’t such an advanced disclosure of our plans benefit the enemy???

Bush wants (or rather, he is being instructed by the republican party) to be able to declare victory in Iraq, right before the elections. (whether it is true or not, he just needs to spin it that way)

But more importantly, he wants to leave final withdrawl for the next president, because the he knows there’s no way to do it without leaving a big mess, and he’d rather have the next (possibly democratic) president take the blame. All he has to do is spin it as a victory, or at least that there is still a chance for victory. Then when the next (possibly democratic) president withdraws, he/she will take the blame for the mess.

IMPEACH THE BASTARD!!!

…from the sick fascist conned’selfserving TRAITORS…

…they’re your:

family members
neighbors
friends
co-workers

…and they’re dangerous…

…(who’s politically DEAD EVEN in S.C. the red state of inbred idiots)…

…also asked Betraeus if it “was worth the deaths of 60 troops and $9 billion per month?”…

..and Betraeus responded “yessir”…

…what scummy a*s TRAITORS!

…both of them know full well that the U.S. will NOT be able to HOLD ONTO IRAQ!

…they’re going to have to leave when Bushiva and L’il Dick are run out of town…

…the DLC is in on this bullsh*t too…

…the profiteering and trying to stall for time while they figure out…

…how to stop Iran, Russia and China from filling the power vacuum…

…the game is up on you stupid a*sholes, you’re going to be copulated…

…worse than you’ve EVER been in history…

…because you refused to do the right thing…

…MAKE the BUSHITES PAY!

If Republican support for the war holds, as it might for now, Democrats would have to soften their approach if they want to pass an anti-war proposal. But they remain under substantial pressure by voters and politically influential anti-war groups to settle for nothing less than ordering troop withdrawals or cutting off money for the war — legislation that has little chances of passing.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6983841.stm

About 70% of Iraqis believe security has deteriorated in the area covered by the US military “surge” of the past six months, an opinion poll suggests.

The poll was conducted by D3 Systems and KA Research in more than 450 neighbourhoods across all 18 provinces of Iraq in August, and has a margin of error of + or – 2.5%.

It was commissioned jointly by the BBC, ABC and Japan’s NHK.