Left In Lowell

Interesting interpretation of the recent Pentagon announcements. Are they handing the war to Dubya and stating, subtly, “you fix this”?

As reported by Nancy Youssef this evening for McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won’t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month’s strategy assessment, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual presentations.

“Consensus is not the goal of the process,” Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. “If there are differences, the president will hear them.”

Military analysts called the move unusual for an institution that ordinarily does not air its differences in public, especially while its troops are deployed in combat.

By the way, McClatchy are the guys who bought the Knight Ridder media group. You know, the ones who got most things right on Iraq from the start.

That, on top of this news, and this previous news. So maybe instead of “the surge is working!” the narrative should be that our troops are doing the best they can in the surge, but it’ll never be enough…and their Commanders know it, even if their Commander-in-Chief does not.

Thanks to George Bush, we’ve broken our Armed Forces, and ruined two countries! What will he do for us next? Oh wait…he’s thinking of going after Iran.