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The Military's Plan for Iraq


Xanthippas, a blogger from Three Wise Men is guest blogging while Sean-Paul is in Mexico this week.

Could it say anything else?


The classified plan, which represents the coordinated strategy of the top American commander and the American ambassador, calls for restoring security in local areas, including Baghdad, by the summer of 2008. “Sustainable security” is to be established on a nationwide basis by the summer of 2009, according to American officials familiar with the document.

The latest plan, which covers a two-year period, does not explicitly address troop levels or withdrawal schedules. It anticipates a decline in American forces as the “surge” in troops runs its course later this year or in early 2008. But it nonetheless assumes continued American involvement to train soldiers, act as partners with Iraqi forces and fight terrorist groups in Iraq, American officials said.


You will eventually be able to add this to the ever-growing list of failed plans for Iraq. Military commanders can hardly afford to be anything but optimistic, but as citizens, you and I are afforded no such luxury.

Xanthippas July 24, 2007 - 8:58am
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On what basis are these warring tribes

becoming as Rodney Dangerfield, "all getting along?"

The expectations sound pollyanish.

canuck July 24, 2007 - 11:50am
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We're not leaving

Watch this.

I did inhale.

Don July 24, 2007 - 12:19pm
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Iraq's water, power systems failing

War-ravaged country's national grid nearing collapse
Aug 04, 2007
Associated Press

BAGHDAD – Iraq's electricity grid could collapse any day because of insurgent sabotage, rising demand, fuel shortages and provincial officials who are unplugging local power stations from the national system, electricity officials said today.

U.S. President George W. Bush, meanwhile, was busy on the phone, calling Vice-president Adel Abdel-Mahdi and President Jalal Talabani, urging political unity in the country, where the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is under a stiff challenge.

Abdel-Mahdi, a Shiite, and Talabani, a Kurd, provided few details of the conversations in statements released by their offices. But both men have been involved in trying to solve a government crisis after Iraq's largest bloc of Sunni political parties ordered its ministers to quit the government.

For many Iraqi citizens, however, trying to stay cool or find sufficient drinking water was a more urgent problem. The Baghdad water supply already has been severely affected by power blackouts and cuts that have affected pumping and filtration stations.

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canuck August 5, 2007 - 9:14am
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