CNN says Bush won't drop 20,000 troops into Iraq all at once, he'll deploy them in stages

[bigtree]

1/8/2007 7:20:00 AM -0500

Bush leans to phasing in new Iraq troops

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush's new plan for Iraq, due this week, is leaning toward phasing in some 20,000 additional U.S. troops, Washington sources tell CNN.

Bush is to deliver his plan, which has the working title "A New Way Forward," on Wednesday and sources said while it is not finalized, won't call for a massive influx of troops in and around Baghdad all at once.

Some elements favored by the Democrats and the Iraq Study Group have been woven into the plan, such as deploying some U.S. troops to Kuwait and bolstering U.S. training of Iraqi troops, CNN said.


http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070108-063215-4537r


so, he'll try to sneak them in . . . no matter, escalation is escalation. That's far from what voters demanded in November.


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[ShortnFiery]

1. It's the same effect. Continuing the bloodshed. Targets in the middle of a Civil War. n/t

[Gman]

2. Not a surge but a drip

He ain't got 20K troops to surge with.

[tanyev]

3. A Stuttering Surge.

[xultar]

4. Which renders it even more of a fuck up. More troops won't work. More troops in stages is murder.

[spanone]

5. I bet it takes what, maybe like, two years to deploy all of them then swoosh, bush* is gone.

[JHB]

6. Meaning we CAN'T deploy them all at once and he wants to hide that

Whistleass!

[baldguy]

7. Recycle the same 5000 four times?

[Botany]

8. One more empty slogan ..... A New Way Forward

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Together Forward (increased troops in Baghdad resulted in
a 43 % increase in in violence .... Baker Hamilton report)


Bush really is insane.

[bigtree]

9. they came up with that one the day before the ISG report was released

the voters demanded a way out, not a way forward.

[Botany]

16. I think "they" got it from the ISG report cover and then rejected just

about all of the reports conclusions and suggestions.

A New Way Forward ..... just meaningless words to cover
bush's ass.

BTW I friend's son is going to Iraq as a hummer driver because of
this stupid plan.

[bigtree]

22. your friend's son has my sympathy

I don't know why our soldiers have to patrol the roads in Iraq. They're just targets.

[PA Democrat]

10. Bush doesn't HAVE 20,000 troops to put into Iraq all at once.

God knows what measures they'll resort to to come up with these numbers. Perhaps they'll send some of the more severely wounded troops back to the front lines. They're already sending back troops with serious psychological problems which should exclude them from combat.

[bigtree]

15. at any rate, if this was allowed, Bush could effectively cut off the possibility of ANY reduction

by insisting that he hadn't achieved his troop level goal, therefore, forestalling 'success' which he'd say is still in the works.

This has to be rejected outright and some compromise has to be advanced by our leadership which is a real plan to exit, instead of this transparent ploy to stay put.

[rodeodance]

11. the new General wants them all in by end of spring-One of the talk

Sun. shows said this yesterday

[bigtree]

18. the whole long-term nature of this planned deployment should be a non-starter

with the leaders of our Democratic majority, apart from the whole question of why we need a 'surge' as part of an exit plan (which Bush's plan is not)

[spanone]

12. Dear Dem Congress This IS Called escalation of a War. Not an ending Surge.

THEY ARE LYING TO US AGAIN, DO NOT EAT THEIR SHIT.

[rodeodance]

13. Michael Duffy, Time talking of this now on Wash Journ.

[rodeodance]

14. He also mentioned all the Navy troops who are on the ground as 'support

" personal. including medics

[Hepburn]

17. WTF?

THAT is a surge??? I don't know what the he11 dictionary Monkey Boy is using, but that is NOT how I understand what that word means.

But, then....why would I expect the asshole to understand English or use it correctly?

My bad.......

[bigtree]

21. sounds like digging in for 2 years or more to me

there is no report of any planned reduction of force coming from the WH. That's a non-starter right there. Voters demanded an exit and Bush is set to offer a long-term escalation.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Staged failure! This is new territory for Commander AWOL

Usually he just fails all at once, like with Katrina and on 9/11.

It still sucks.

We need a real commander for our troops, not a deserter preppy cheerleader.

[rodeodance]

20. Dem. Leaders have had to move the War up on their agenda, so

Says Michael Duffy of Time. On Wash journal. They came out with
Domestic issues only---but he sees movement—the “Left” wants
The war ON the Agenda NOW.

[bdamomma]

23. bush just loves those titles doesn't he, stupid man.

[EST]

24. They only have, according to the military, nine thousand troops

available.

Kind of reminds me of the three legged pig.
When the farmer was asked why the pig had only three legs, he recited quite a litany of how the pig was so well loved by the community, how he had alerted the family when the house caught fire at night and saved the family, and how the pig went to church with them every sunday and even sang in the choir.

Frustrated, the nosy reporter asked what that had to do with the pig having three legs.
The farmer replied' "Well, you don't expect we'd eat a pig like this all at once, do you?"

Bush is doing his absolute best to destroy this country and trying to keep anyone from noticing.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. Making a "strategy" out of necessity

He doesn't have 20,000 troops to drop all at once.

That said, this is even more asinine, possibly, than the escalation itself. Imagine American generals in WWII saying "Let's only put one battalion into Normandy at a time." Good idea.

[Atman]

26. Yup, stages, little by little, dragging it out until 2008

He's testing our collective stupidity and/or will to challenge him.

.

[chelsea0011]

27. Bush acts like he is playing the board game "Risk".

Who is left in America believes that this guy is capable of running a lemonade stand much less a war?

[NNN0LHI]

28. Well that isn't a "surge." Thats a dribble n/t

[Little Wing]

30. Bush just Reaganed all over Iraq

:o

[Little Wing]

29. They should just called it Year 4: A New Hope

:eyes:

[GOTV]

31. Better for running out the clock n/t