The NYT has some details on the president's planned "surge" in Iraq. Here's the overview:
President Bush’s new Iraq strategy calls for a rapid influx of forces that could add as many as 20,000 American combat troops to Baghdad, supplemented with a jobs program costing as much as $1 billion intended to employ Iraqis in projects including painting schools and cleaning streets, according to American officials who are piecing together the last parts of the initiative.The American officials said Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, formally agreed in a long teleconference on Thursday with Mr. Bush to match the American troop increase, made up of five combat brigades that would go in at a rate of roughly one a month, by sending three more Iraqi brigades to Baghdad over the next month and a half.
Now I have to ask... Is there anyone... anyone? who thinks that the only thing standing between us and "victory" in Iraq is 20,000 more soldiers and an additional $1 billion in reconstruction funding? Anyone? And if not, what precisely is the point of this?
If 20,000 troops and $1 billion are all that are needed for us to succeed, I have to ask: why haven't they done this sooner? What precisely have they been waiting for?
What am I missing here?
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