Speech!

George Bush is going to make a prime time speech tomorrow night in which he is expected to announce that he plans to bring 30,000 US troops home from Iraq by next July. First of all, besides the notion that it could all be bullshit, 30,000 is the number of troops the Decider added to the Iraq equation earlier this year with the wonderful "Surge." That, of course, means a reduction of this magnitude will only take us back to the level we were at in Feb/Mar 2007. Hence Bush will have procrastinated any meaningful change in troop levels or strategy for yet another year-and-a-half (and that's roughly 1200 dead American soldiers), and the stupid war will be 5½ years old. At some point this will all have to end, but I don't think having 130,000+ US servicemen and women in Iraq in July of 2008 is what the American people have in mind.




Don't believe the hype!! People hate this war and people hate this president.