From Fire Dog Lake:
I thought the “Bush surge” in Iraq was supposed to reduce violence.
I thought so, too. But the violence just seems to continue and, as Fire Dog Lake — and numerous news reports — points out, it is on the rise.
Exactly how long are our nation’s soldiers expected to play this deluded game of whack-a-mole, risking life and limb for George Bush’s ego? Because even allowing for an increase in violence due to the weather heating up and the usual summer uprisings and such, the whole “surge of troops to quell the violence” concept is working bass ackwards.
And it is the troops on the ground, not the strutting folks in Washington, who are paying the ultimate price for this. As well as the Iraqi people, most of whom are trapped in increasingly violent sectarian pockets, or running to other nations as refugees from George Bush’s war. What a mess.
Indeed.
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