As you know, President Bush has proposed a troop surge in Iraq. I think that could be a great idea if it’s done properly.
Traditionally, in military parlance, a “surge” is when troops are increased in an area and then ordered to run through all nearby cities, destroying and killing whatever they see. This is always great for troop morale because our troops love running around shooting at stuff but hate standing around and being shot at. Plus, it’s a great way to end a military campaign and declare victory, because it’s hard to argue you weren’t victorious when you just killed a bunch of people and blew stuff up.
Thus, the question is whether President Bush will order a proper surge with the running around and the indiscriminate destruction. This would mark the difference between a good president and a bad president. If Bush orders a proper surge, people will look back on him and say, “Remember when that president destroyed tons of stuff and killed lots of foreigners? That was cool.” But, if Bush does half-measures, people will say, “Remember when that president could have destroyed tons of stuff and killed lots of foreigners but didn’t? That totally sucked.”
Can we follow the surge with a pillage? Then maybe a plunder? I don’t think that we’ve had a good pillage or plunder in my lifetime, which seems a bit unfair. Pillages and plunders ought to occur at least as often as White Sox and Red Sox World Series victories.
Both Bush and Frank J. appear to be idiots. There is no way to win in Iraq because the Sunnis and Shiites hate each other and will continue to try and kill each other. You can’t force them to like each other by killing them. The majority of them also hate us and will enjoy shooting and bombing new troops that arrive in Iraq. The surge is only going to get more troops killed and waste more money. Bush never should have lied and gone into Iraq in the first place. Numerous experts pointed out the obvious Sunni-Shiite dilemma well before Bush’s stupid invasion ever started. We must leave and impeach the dumb president and his stupid Cheney friend. Frank J – who is a smart person who likes science fiction – needs to wake up on the facts about issues like Iraq and global warming. Frank J is too smart to continue being such an idiot. If Frank J. continues being such an idiot about the facts he will isolate himself in a smaller and smaller corner and the IMAO blog will suffer from diminishing relevance and traffic.
You know what I enjoyed most about this surge thing-ee?
It was listening to the MSM talking heads and Dems “worried” about “wearing out” our soldiers and equipment. Well, doy, isn’t that why we have an army? So we have to buy some new freaking Hummers. Weren’t all the brigades mentioned, regular army and not National Guard?
Can anyone imagine hearing this stuff in WW2?
Sarcasm Man, if he continues to be as insignificant as he is, will no longer warrant any sort of response at all.
The key here is to change the rules of engagement, whittle it down from the current 13 or so, to 2:
1. Target bad guy.
2. Shoot bad guy.
A rifleman has precious few seconds to react to a situation and can’t be hampered by mentally running through a lengthy checklist before pulling the trigger.
As for the Sunni vs Shiite situation? Kill ’em both. The Kurds like us, and need our help quelling the radicals.
…the Sunnis and Shiites hate each other and will continue to try and kill each other.
They hate each other? Wha?! Someone better tell someone in the Middle East about this soon so someone can do something about it.
How can they hate each other? That’s a religion of peace!
We need to be careful about the “indiscriminate destruction” thing, folks. Gotta be careful not to damage the oil wells & pipelines. That’d make stealing their oil much more difficult.
“You can’t force them to like each other by killing them.”
But killing them seems to make them more tolerant of each other.
-or at least stops them from fighting.
Either way, I elect Sarcasm boy to be the “Point of the Spear” for any up-coming Surge!
New idea for the “surge”. Let’s just shanghi all the gang bangers and ship them over to the Suni Triangle. That way, they can drive through the streets jamming their “ghetto garbage” as loud as they want, throw all the gang signs they want, even do all the drive-bys they want, and no one will care. Two birds with one stone!
Sarcasm Man, we had a guy like you back in my bike messenger days.
We’d be puffin’ up after work, recounting all the thrills and spills of the day, just glad to be alive. Then this guy Tom would come up, uninvited, and start bitching about his cut of the runs, and how he would change this and that, and blah blah blah, just not getting it, and totally ruining our buzz.
We named him Superdud. That’s you, Sarcasm Man – Superdud.
Now, about that surge…
It occurs to me that there’s but one person left to take out before spinning this into victory.
The head Baathists – Saddam, Uday and Qusay – dead.
The head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq – Zarqawi – dead.
That leaves Shiite Pain in the Ass Numero Uno – Mookie al-Sadr – begging for a 500 pounder on his head.
And that just leaves the wrap party. The rest is trivial…
Unfortunately the dems are talking about a troop “Serge”. Serge will go to Iraq, Iran and N Korea to talk to their leaders to come to a common understanding of how they will ignore the UN and us and spit in our faces.
And here I thought Bush was planning on leaving green cans of an unmentioned power drink around Bagdad and yelling “Surge!” at the top of his lungs, causing all the terrorists to be trampled by crazy co-eds during the rush to score the last few known cases of said totally non-addictive energy drink.