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June 20th, 2007 at 2:23 am
The thing is, Bush didn’t really put in a 20,000 surge. It was more like 45,000, but SSHHHHH no one’s supposed to know.
We’re up to over 160,000 troops in Iraq.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
20,000 transferred to the Army from other branches of the military in response to bonus incentives.
The conclusion of that Frontline piece is that there is no endgame. I also find it hard to believe the administration’s claims that they were going to slash the troop levels to 30K within one year when they were building over a dozen permanent bases.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:40 am
“Gen. David Petraeus, Iraq war commander, suggested Sunday that conditions on the ground might not be stable enough by September to justify a drop in force levels, and he predicted that stabilizing Iraq could take a decade.”
June 20th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hey Lynne, thanks for the shoutout. I’ll try to catch it at some point this week.
It sounds like they’ve done the usual PBS exhaustive job, and actually looked at the policy instead of taking the easy path of discrediting Bush’s idiotic “surge” talking points. I didn’t understand why he billed it that way until I looked at it in the context of the congressional fights on funding - by billing it as “temporary” he managed to push the fight over how long the troops will stay back by a few months and in the meantime congress has shown that they have no appetite for cutting off funding, so now he has his plan implemented until January 09. Good tactical move, I guess, if your credibility is already a total loss and you’re just looking to get your policy in at whatever cost to your reputation.
June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
‘Frontline’ produces some of the best investigative journalism this country has to offer IMHO.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
It just reiterated what I believed all along. George Bush and his cronies are the ultimate sociopaths who are capable of the most heinous of war crimes; is to allow more men and women die for a lost cause and a war that should never have been part of the USA agenda. George Bush don’t like anybody!