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Originally Posted by graybeard
Had the administration altered the course early on, that would have been admitting they had made mistakes, jeopardizing their control of congress or even the 2004 election.
It seems obvious to me that following the democratic victory in 2006,they knew their chance to advance their agenda was lost, so they decided to focus on winning the war. By that time, the insurgency had become more powerful, the sectarian violence had increased and Al Sadr had fully entrenched himself as the real power in Iraq.
21,500 additional troops seems like too little, too late. Maybe 50,000 in 2004 might have allowed us to turn the corner. GWB would have never allowed that to happen, that would be admitting a mistake.
It's all a matter of perspective Smitty, our enemies see us a weak because GWB didn't want to fight this war the way it should have been fought.
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There you go again with the past. What we should have done is critisized by liberals who has no plan at the time of action yet they bash bush for his plans at the same time. The fact is at least bush had a plan. He doesent have the luxery of waiting untill something goes wrong before he derives his plans and actions and blames them on someone elts. the fact that things have gone bad is irrelevent because the democrats did nothing then just like they are doing nothing now to ensure victory in iraq. They love to critisize the past where they also had no plan. I dont understand this. Terror percieves the US as weak because we are devided and both the terrorists and the liberals exploit this to their benifit. the way the enemy thinks we should fight this war is to be just as ruthless as they are whch isnt an option for us Grey now is it? Winning the war has always been number one on the forghin policy list. More troops can only help things in iraq. More raids, smaller areas of operation, more overwatch, less enemy traffick, more freedom to walk the streets for the iraqis, Less violence, more show of force presence, Less ied's, more detailed serches, less wepon cashaes, more detainees, less terrorist funding, etc etc etc.... I could go on all day. Just on company can help an entire city like ramadi. Bush is sending much more than that! You would need to understand how to combat terror to understand the reason for the troop surge. thoes who critisize this surge have no clue on militery operations on urban terrain in a terror enviroment. This includes you greay! I would have loved to have had more troops in ar ramadi when i was there!