Can someone define the "surge"?

[kentuck]

We keep hearing about the "surge is working". Just what is the surge? We are led to believe it is the 30,000 troops put into Iraq by Bush and run to perfection by the genius general, David Petraeus. But that is all a cover for the real "surge".

The Administration decided that the Shia strategy of bringing the Iraqis together was not going to work. So they went to the Congress and asked for almost $200 billion dollars above what was already in the budget. Why did they need that?

They made the decision to pay off the Sunni, just as they were paying off the Shia, in hope sthey would stop killing each other and, most importantly, stop killing Americans. In this sense, the surge has worked.

But it had nothing to do with General Petraeus' strategy or the military. It had everything to do with bribing both sides with tons of American dollars. The Administration has successfully put their finger in the dike and stopped the flood of bombs and killings. Is that success?

Not really. It is a temporary measure until they can get through November's election. It will probably work to accomplish that. In that sense, the surge has worked.

But, definition of the "surge" has not been truly defined. In truth, the surge is about separating the Shia and the Sunni with American dollars so they can have their own defense forces, paid for by George W Bush and the American taxpayers for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, we cannot afford it.

The surge is more about the ego of George W Bush than it is about America's security or standing in the world. He ran the car into the ditch and now he gets credit for figuring out how to get it out of the ditch, but he is still lost. He still does not know the way home. It has been a disastrous failure, to say the least.

[bunkerbuster1]

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