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A GAO report points out that George Bush has no updated, comprehensive post-surge strategery for Iraq. What's more, although violence in Iraq has decreased, many of the goals Bush touted one-and-a-half years ago in his self-ballyhooed "New Way Forward" strategery remain unmet.

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$20 Billion Later, Iraq Security Only Operating At 10 Percent

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The most startling illustration of the hindered strategy seems likely to be the current status of the Iraqi Security Forces -- the policing and military presence that is supposed to allow U.S. troops to come home. According to the GAO, the percentage of Iraqi units "capable of performing operations without U.S. assistance" remains roughly 10 percent. Thus, while the number of forces has risen by more than 150,000, the actual assistance that American troops are receiving is far more negligible. Adding salt to the wound, the GAO notes: "Since 2003, the United States has provided more than $20 billion to develop Iraqi security forces."
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The number of trained Iraqi security forces may overstate the number of troops present for duty. According to DOD, the number of trained troops includes personnel who are deceased or absent without leave. For example, DOD reported that approximately 24,500 soldiers were dropped from the Iraqi Army rolls in 2007 because they deserted or were absent without leave. However, these troops are still counted in trained numbers. An April 2008 Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction report confirmed that a substantial number of Iraqi personnel still on the payroll were not present for duty for various reasons, such as being on leave, absent without leave, injured, or killed.
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When the Iraqis stand up, or lie down, or merely fade away we'll . . .

All they care about is that Oil nothing else.

Larry Mohr

Tell me again why the hell we elected this POS?

It is an occupational surge.
Check back about the time W is judged to be a successful presnit by Historians.
W is just too far seeing to be bothered with outcomes that will occur during our own life times.


The surge is the strategy, soon he'll be safely out of office and it will be someone elses mess.

It makes me wish we could keep him in office only so he can later be kicked out by us

McCain already gave the Post-Surge strategy. Sometime after 2013 we will consider leaving.

And some people plan on voting for the guy. simply amazing.

The Republicans, 'Pass the Buck' strategy is working just fine!

Tell me again why the hell we elected this POS?

"WE" didn't.

Bush was appointed by SCOTUS, after vote rigging bogged down. In an election supposedly determined by less than 500 votes, 16,000 votes were subtracted from Gore's total and 3,000 votes were added to Bush on just one Diebold Machine.

If the plan was to raise the cost of energy (during secret planning), enrich Wall Street by supporting their continuing class war on working Americans, and losing the respect and trust of the entire world Bush is a flaming success.

Still the biggest, bestest, brilliantest military campaign since General Custer's glorious victory at the Little Big Horn. Saddam never attacked us with those WMD, did he? Just proves Bush was right. Only six Americans blown up this week shows they do greet us as liberators.

And how the fuck can you bitch about those carpet prices?

The Fighty Rightys

PS History will show that George W(onderful) Bush stratergically leading most of the Air Force to Cornhole Nebraska on 9-11 prevented hundreds of suicide attacks that day.

What do you mean he has no plan? He has a plan. The plan is leave his mess to his successor. All those other little plans were just a way of buying time. This criminal is dumb like a fox.

Bush is a flaming success.

Posted by nutcase

He's a "flamer"-alright.....Just ask Jeff Gannon.


"Bush is a flaming success.


Posted by nutcase


He's a "flamer"-alright.....Just ask Jeff Gannon."

Posted by frankf55 at 2008-06-24 08:55 PM | Reply

I had hoped for more from our first bisexual President.

Actually it's really difficult to have a plan for any after warfare action as it impossible to predict the outcome. All one can do is 'invent' a multitude of scenarios and even then none of them may apply. Surprise folks - it's just like living life: No promises; and how many of you are where you planned to be in life [be honest with yourself-I have never met anyone including myself]??

A realist (not many libs) knows that in life you roll with the punches. It's an ANCIENT axiom in warfare (as well as life) that the plans change once you make contact with the enemy [just ask Gore] - EVERYTHING is fluid.

"Roll with the punches...."

It's also an axiom of warfare to avoid getting punched.

Msgt

You are correct. People should never make plans since they never work out. Planning for college is stupid. Having goals is stupid...no...wait a minute. You are just fucking stupid. There ya go.

;-)

MSGT-
The obvious post-occupation problems were voiced by members of the Bush administration itself, and also from within the military.

They were ignored by idiots snorting their own fairy dust.

Since when is rank incompetence defensible in the Republican Party? (Oh....nevermind.....I didn't mean it Zombie Reagan.....agggghhhh.....go back to....)

What? Dubya worry???

Dubya is already in vacation mode. He and Laura are busy decorating the new Library, and trying to boot their last remaining single daughter out of the house. Oh, and they're charting out their round the world vacations between Paraguay, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, too.

Bush has a plan for Iraq..... stall until Jan 2009 then retire to the lecture circuit, dictate a book or two and collect millions in favors owed.

Why do I see a multitude of highly paid speaking engagements of him butchering the english language for the telecom and oil industries at millions a pop?

E8,
www.heavymetalpro.com

Bush..... "I plan to guard Iraq for the next 1000 years. I want to protect their oil and promote free trade."

-meanwhile the US goes into the shitter and jobs are lost 10 fold and the market crashes.

McCain=McBush

Actually, bush has got the perfect plan: pass his bucket o' shit to the dems.

Tell me again why the hell we elected this POS?

Posted by keith204

Because there was a much bigger POS running against him.

I've said it once I have said it a thousand times. If You voted for Dubya You need to sell everything and go fix Your mess in Iraq. You guys always talk about taking responsibility for Your actions welp this is a PERFECT Opportunity to show it. Get cracking.

Larry Mohr

If You voted for Dubya You need to sell everything and go fix Your mess in Iraq.

Are you suggesting that all voters are responsible for the actions of people they help put in office, Larry?

Think carefully before you answer.

Trool alert Trool alert 6 Oclock High.

Larry

deflection alert deflection alert 6 o'clock high.

We'll take that as a "no", Larry and that you agree that after thinking about it, you agree that it is a preposterous notion after all.

Thanks for playing.

Clinton has a plan for Osama Bin laden..... stall until Jan 2001 then retire to the lecture circuit, dictate a book or two and collect millions in favors owed.

Why do I see a multitude of highly paid speaking engagements of him lying for millions a pop?

There 726, I fixed it for ya ...

No Goatman I just refuse to participate in Your mindless spew.

Larry

No Goatman I just refuse to participate in Your mindless spew.

You mean you refuse to get trapped by your own words. I understand.

Why does the GAO hate America?



Are you suggesting that all voters are responsible for the actions of people they help put in office, Larry?


Think carefully before you answer.

Posted by goatman

Only if they voted for him twice.

Goat, although Larry put it a bit hamhandedly, he does have a point. If you agree with W that this is the struggle of our times and support him in it, You should enlist and go help save America from the Islamofacists.

Clinton has a plan for Osama Bin laden.....

There 726, I fixed it for ya ...

Posted by danved a

As compared to Bushling who "Did not think about him all that much."

And now that Lil Bush's tenure is ending he is paying lip service by requesting Osama be caught before the end of his term.

What a fucking joke Lil Bush is, ignore Osama for 7 years then act tough. What is more pathetic is tools like you fall hook, line and sinker for his retarded statements.

Bush and Darth Cheney had and have a plan. Their plan, which has been brilliantly successful, was to rob the US Treasury blind in full daylight. They did it without anyone so much as blinking in the light. They are leaving with billions of our taxpayer dollars, gasoline prices through the roof so they and their cohorts in crime will continue to be revoltingly rich as long as they draw breath and leaving the Iraq/Afghanistan debacle to whoever is unlucky enough to succeed them in office. The past 7+ years have been nothing more than a massive raid on the Treasury and they have gotten away with it scott-free. And I am not sure they are content with that. I am still watching for a new national threat that has already started to percolate in Iran. Watch for Congress to cave and give those thieves in the White House permission to poke enough sticks at that snake so that by November the Shrub will have to 'postpone' elections. I never thought I would ever say that in my lifetime but with this crew it is entirely possible. They are like small children who have gotten hold of the cooky jar. A few cookies are never enough - they have to gorge themselves until we are sick.

"Only if they voted for him twice."

Yeah, really. By 2004 it was obvious that Bush was a disaster. It obvious that he would send US troops into battle without formulating a complete plan first because he simply doesn't give a shit how many of them die unnecessarily. If you voted for him the 2nd time, you supported that behavior and deserve whatever criticism that comes with it.

BAGHDAD -- Three U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in Ninewa Province on Tuesday night in the second large explosion to strike the Mosul region in a day and further evidence that Sunni Arab guerrillas remain very active in the northern city despite recent Iraqi military operations.

Few details of the attack were released by the American military, which said that an improvised explosive device killed the soldiers and interpreter about 10:45 p.m. At least 25 American service members have been killed in Iraq this month, compared to 19 in May, according to Icasualties.org, a Web site that tracks deaths.


And Sniper-the bigger POS was running with Bush, not against him.

**** GAO: Bush Still Lacks Plan for Iraq *****

.........sure he has a plan for " Clinton's Fault ".....or Iraq as we know it.......

......leave it to the next POTUS to clean up.......


.......by the time the Faux revisions are done.....

.....it will have been Clinton's War and Obama's mess........

no plan whatsoever....

no plan at all.

well before you liberal fucks get too much spittle all over your shirts, you had better check the news first.
bush and talibani are close to announcing a security pact for the future of iraq. you may not agree with the plan but the fact is....you days of spewing bullshit about NO PLAN are over and probably were a waste of our reading time anyway.....

bush and talibani are close to announcing a security pact for the future of iraq.

Yeah? How many tens of thousands of US troops to protect the oil contracts indefinitely? How many hundreds of billions more of our tax money is going to be pissed into that shithole for the benefit of Exxon Mobil who is only too eager to gouge the same people at the pump on a daily basis?

That sure is some fucking plan.

Written by Exxon Mobil I am sure.

this thread says that bush HAS NO PLAN.......thats what I thought liberal fucks would say.
you bitch that he has no plan
you bitch when he HAS a plan
I was limiting my comment to the headline that says

ahem.....and I quote

BUSH STILL LACKS PLAN FOR IRAQ......

and now what I am saying is......that is now incorrect.........debate the plan later but this thread is finished and was probably a BIG FAT LIE THE WHOLE TIME.
and that is a

FACT!!!!!!!

hey that fact shit is fun.......

To have a plan, one would assume that there is an intelligent application of analysis to the situation and then some formulation...
but, alas, there goes that theory... 'intelligent application' and Bobblehead Bush are extreme opposite realities....

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