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Quote by: Slevin57  You are passing judgment before even 50% of the troops are in place.
If you call failure before anyone has even had a chance, how could anyone such as yourself expect things to get better.
Congress started asking, what can we do to make it better. Instead of meeting with military officials to strategize and come up with a new plan, we decided to just leave. That doesn't fix anything, that leaves them to fend on their own. Do we really need a repeat lesson of Vietnam? |
"Two months into the U.S.-led Baghdad Security Plan, at least 289 people were killed and injured across Iraq on Saturday, including 37 dead in a car bomb attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala. The carnage of a crowd teeming with women and children set off an angry mob of hundreds against the governor and police.
Aqeel al-Khazaali, the governor of Karbala, blamed the Baghdad Security Plan for the attack inside the relatively safe southern city. Karbala is about 50 miles south of Baghdad.
"The Baghdad crackdown and the tribes in Ramadi are forcing the terrorists to leave their cities," he said. "Now Karbala is under fire from terrorists, and the central government has to take the necessary steps to help us to protect the holy city.""
Nearly 300 Iraqis killed, hurt in 1 day | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Are we going to "surge" in every Iraqi city? Wasn't the decrease in violence in Baghdad expected to cause a "surge" in violence in other cities? I guess one good surge deserves another.