So this surge is supposed to pacify Baghdad, what happens to the rest of Iraq?

[catmandu57]

While we are spinning our wheels on Baghdad, the resistance does what they've done for four years they melt away and come back strong when the monkey's great plan fails again.
Then what will people finally realize the fucking shell game this fuckwad* has been playing on them, do we issue blue and grey uniforms then so their civil war can become official?

Fuck you chimp*, fuck you and anyone who looks like you, fuck you to the nth generation.

[Oreo]

1. But but but.... Baghdad is safe!

There is no winning this war... there is no reason for any more of our troops to die for something that's inevitable. We will leave Iraq without winning... why not leave now?

[catmandu57]

3. I hear that one can go strolling

there now, with your hands in your pockets whistling a happy tune.

[madokie]

4. this war on Iraq was lost the moment it was fostered

[IWantAChange]

2. Creating the perception the surge is working gets them closer to the prize

which is tens of trillions of dollars worth of untapped oil - PERIOD.

[genie_weenie]

5. The rest of the country doesn't matter, seriously.

The current strategy goes:

Baghdad is the Key. Control baghdad, then work on other major cities. This is the inkblot or ripple idea. Control Point A, expand your control in concentric circles extending outwards from Point A (Baghdad) until they intersect with other Points (Mosul, Kirkuk, Fallujah, Ramadi, Basra, Tikrit).

In terms of military losses, the admin is willing to accept the US losses of 3-4 KIA and 7-10 WIA per day for a long time. With the American Air Supremacy, the thinking goes, since no huge guerrilla engagements (Vietnam) will occur in which a Battalion of "enemies" emerge to be transfixed and destroyed, Americans will also not suffer any large similar losses.

After all troops are merely cogs in the machine. Hell, they volunteered so too bad...