BAGHDAD – Nearly every week, American generals and politicians visit Combat Outpost Gator, nestled behind a towering blast wall in the Dora market. They arrive in convoys of armored Humvees, sometimes accompanied by helicopter gunships, to see what U.S. commanders display as proof of the effectiveness of a seven-month-long security offensive, fueled by 30,000 U.S. reinforcements. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. military leader in Iraq, frequently cites the market as a sign of progress.

“This is General Petraeus’s baby,” said Staff Sgt. Josh Campbell, 24, of Winfield, Kan., as he set out on a patrol near the market on a hot evening in mid-August.

Next week, Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker will deliver to Congress their much-anticipated response to the central question that has dominated U.S. policy in Iraq this year: Is the “surge” working?

For months, top commanders and Bush administration officials have said that sectarian violence is down, although some U.S. agencies disagree, according to a recent draft report by the Government Accountability Office. Commanders and officials say attacks are also down against U.S. troops in once-treacherous regions such as Anbar province. This year, more than 100 joint security stations and smaller combat outposts have been erected in neighborhoods and villages across the country, which generals say is an indicator that U.S. and Iraqi troops maintain control.

The troop surge CAN work, if the troops are allowed to do what troops are supposed to do, KILL the enemy, the biggest problem we have in Iraq, other than the fact that we didn’t need to go there in the 1st place, has been George W. Bush himself, our troops haven’t been the problem, their effort hasn’t been the problem, the restrictions they were forced to operate under, THAT has been the problem…

The President doesn’t need to be micro-managing the war effort, he needs to tell the DoD what he wants done and let them DO it, and he needs to forget this PC war bull crap,, you are going to stir up serious emotions when you go to war, and being concerned with the feelings of your enemy is NOT a priority, defeating that enemy is the only concern until you have attained a 100% victory, not some Mission Accomplished BS photo op that didn’t mean anything…

If there is one indisputable truth regarding the current offensive, it is this: When large numbers of U.S. troops are funneled into areas, security improves. But the numbers only partly describe the reality on the ground. Visits to key U.S. bases and neighborhoods in and around Baghdad show that recent improvements are sometimes tenuous, temporary, even illusory.

And that paragraph says it all Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s a statement of the obvious certainly, but it’s truthful on every level, a greatly increased number of troops in a combat zone, troops ALLOWED to actually do their job, will make ALL the difference, but here’s the real kicker for those 3 or 4 of those Bush is God sites that think people like me are leftist libbers, we can put the entire U.S. Army into Iraq, and we can displace every terrorist and insurgent in that nation, and they will stay displaced too, for as long as WE maintain that much increased troop presence, but what happens when we do bring our troops home and turn it over to the Iraqis?? What happens if and when we just reduce our forces to pre-surge strength??

Do you honestly think the Iraqis can, or WILL hold on to what WE won and GAVE them?? They won’t, and unless you Bush Bot Iraq supporters are willing to commit to an incredibly LONG TERM presence in Iraq, you’d better realize that this is NOT going to work as Bush has BS’d you into believing, all you’re looking at is another commitment just like the one we have in Korea, we have been there for well over 50 years, is that what you want the U.S. to do in Iraq, to still be there when your grandchildren are grown??

We can’t POLICE the world, we shouldn’t have to, we need to take care of America and let NATO and the U.N. take care of the WORLD, and yeah, I know, their capabilities depend on us, but if those organizations can’t, or won’t do the job, if WE are the only ones that can, or WILL, then by God to the victor goes the spoils and we need to pull OUT of NATO and the U.N., and take our sizable financial contributions with us…

George Bush and his Bush Bots are more concerned with affairs in Iraq and Mexico than they are with the security situation we are faced with right here in America, we are rapidly coming to a point in American history when the citizens OF this nation are going to have to rise and fight FOR this nation again, right here on American soil, or before very long there won’t be a United States left to fight for, Bush is giving us away as fast as he can, and I don’t know about you but I have a name for ANY man that will work AGAINST his own nation while giving full support to others, one word covers it all, TRAITOR…

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Is the troop ‘surge’ working?

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