http://donklephant.com/2007/02/07/illogic-on-iraq/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:07:11 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://donklephant.com/2007/02/07/illogic-on-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-218894 wj Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:49:19 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=3145#comment-218894 How delightful, then, for the Iraqi government that they have an obvious path forward. The "surge" plan calls for a number of actions on their part -- all they have to do is fail to deliver on those, and the Americans will get out of the way. Note that reports are that the first action (additional Iraqi troops) looks to have been furfilled in name (number of units moved) but not in reality (lots of troops not appearing with their units). One might suspect that the Iraqi's are just being a little subtle as they go forward. How delightful, then, for the Iraqi government that they have an obvious path forward. The “surge” plan calls for a number of actions on their part — all they have to do is fail to deliver on those, and the Americans will get out of the way. Note that reports are that the first action (additional Iraqi troops) looks to have been furfilled in name (number of units moved) but not in reality (lots of troops not appearing with their units). One might suspect that the Iraqi’s are just being a little subtle as they go forward.

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