And, BTW, what surge other than money...

Troop levels have been at the same level before "The Dumb Surge" (TDS) and things were a mess so don't give me this crap that the TDS has been this great miliatry accomplishment when it hasn't... The TDS has been a business deal and nothin' more and as long as the US taxpayers are willing to funnel their tax dollars to Iraqi thugs thru the TDS then this little arrangement will hold up... But tell the thugs to get off their butts and get a job and the TDS will go down faster than a whale's turd in the ocean...

And you can take that to the bank...

(No, Bobert, bad idea... The banks are crappin' out faster than you can count 'um... Probably safer just "stayin' the course" for another 100 years and let the Iraqis spend our money...)

B~