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The President has a new plan for Iraq. It’s the same as the old plan. Except it’s even less likely to be effective. For one thing, it calls for an increase of twenty one thousand troops which is ultimately like raindrops falling into the lake, and then there’s the fact that that the increases won’t happen overnight. It’ll take weeks to send the soldiers all, and only a few are leaving at a time.

We’d be better off using what we’ve already got, telling the Iraqis that we’re leaving in a year and a half — or that the vast majority of our troops are leaving and that the ones that stay will be there solely in an advisory position — and that the final stages of our mission, training replacements, will be done, and then they’ll be largely on their own. It’d be better than what he’s planning to do now.

In other news, the Democrats are holding the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver. Considering that I think that the future of the Democratic Party is in the Midwest, Northeast and West, I’m thrilled to see such a sensible decision made.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pm and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).