Thursday, February 28, 2008
Surge Update
Quick follow-up to our surge discussion earlier. McClatchey notes that a key bit of legislation touted by McCain and TeamBush as key evidence of Iraq's new direction was, ahem, vetoed by the presidential panel of Iraq. , You know, our lackeys, I mean allies. As the article noted, "The rejected bill, which sets out the political structure for Iraq's provincial governments and establishes a basis for elections in October, was only the second of 18 U.S.-set political benchmarks that the war-tore nation needs to reach."
And lest we forget, 'victory' by original surge standards, was to create (in this now-closing window of time) political space for the Iraqis to agree on these points. Well, I guess we got the oil one, who cares about the others? Ahh. . . I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Quick follow-up to our surge discussion earlier. McClatchey notes that a key bit of legislation touted by McCain and TeamBush as key evidence of Iraq's new direction was, ahem, vetoed by the presidential panel of Iraq. , You know, our lackeys, I mean allies. As the article noted, "The rejected bill, which sets out the political structure for Iraq's provincial governments and establishes a basis for elections in October, was only the second of 18 U.S.-set political benchmarks that the war-tore nation needs to reach."
And lest we forget, 'victory' by original surge standards, was to create (in this now-closing window of time) political space for the Iraqis to agree on these points. Well, I guess we got the oil one, who cares about the others? Ahh. . . I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
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