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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (76321)	1/16/2007 4:34:09 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible," Bush said. What part of "GTFO" does your moron leader not understand?!

To: jlallen who wrote (76321)	1/16/2007 8:16:18 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

The Baltimore Sun on the Dumbyasshole's stupid "surge" nonsense : Exhibit A in the administration's case for a surge of troops into Baghdad is the experience in the city of Tal Afar, which the president has long held up as a model. But critics say the success was partial at best, with Shiite areas secure and Sunni ones armed and dangerous. And - brace for a real shocker - things went south as soon as U.S. troops moved on. On top of that, Tal Afar was a small city, and the heavy concentration of forces we managed there would be impossible to duplicate in Baghdad, which is vastly larger. Not to mention that we can't build a 9-foot wall around Baghdad, as we did in Tal Afar. James Dobbins, a former Bush envoy to Afghanistan now with the RAND Corp., says that based on previous nation-building efforts, we would need some 500,000 troops to stabilize Iraq. Even with the boost in troop strength, we would have only one-third that number. Mr. Dobbins points out another defect: If we concentrate our efforts in Baghdad, the insurgents can do the same, raising the level of violence instead of curbing it. That is what happened last summer, when we deployed more troops there in an attempt to improve security, only to see a jump in insurgent attacks and American casualties. Another possibility is that our enemies will take the opportunity to wreak havoc elsewhere, knowing we're too focused on the capital to respond.