EVERYBODY'S GONE SURGIN'

The reviews are in and they are not pretty-- The internet is rife with condemnation and projections of defeat no matter what-- The Speech itself suggests Mister Bush's present tense is doing some serious lagwork in relationship to the tense of the current situation on the ground in Iraq-- 'Failure is not an option' is the shibboleth opening doors not limited only to the White House but everywhere in DC these days-- To profess this obligatory charade is a radical and ignorant denial-- a robust slogan devoid of reality and its comprehension-- American Failure in Iraq is currently an incontrovertible fact no ludicrous boosterism can supplant--Everybody's gone surgin' and almost everybody's unhappy about it--

Ask the Iraqi leadership resolutely deployed at the lobster fest in the GreedZone (oops!!!!):

Okay so the Prime Minister's zipped the lip at least publicly failing to pledge support for an attack against his own militia and the neighborhood that elected him even as the ever overconfident Bush blusters `This time(how many times???), Iraqi and American forces will have a green light to enter those neighborhoods,'' Bush said. ``Prime Minister Maliki has pledged that political or sectarian interference will not be tolerated.'' Talking and then Walking that talk are two halves of a different coin but Maliki did walk some talk of his own appointing his own man Lt. Gen. Abud Qanbar as the Military Commander in Baghdad and did so without consulting Bush or the American command echelon-- American intel on the new topdog is apparently lacking-- "Qanbar, a commander in the navy during Saddam Hussein's reign, has not worked with American military officials, who say they know little about him other than that he hails from Amara, a city in Shiite-dominated southern Iraq, and that he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces near Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war in 1991." Ratcheting down Qanbar's authority asap Maliki's US handlers added another bureaucratic level of command structure to buffer Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and any loose cannon fodder that might spring from the Iraqi desire to exercise said leadership... Government by Muppets--

Ask the Iraqis on the ground in the Middle East:

Bush "mismanaged and brutalized Iraq too long to even hope for stability while the troops stay," said Mohammed Sayed Said, an analyst at the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "The reservoir of violence and bitterness and agonies is so huge that hoping for stability in the immediate future is self-deception at best."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Hosseini told reporters in Tehran. "America is trying to accuse and blame other countries for interference in Iraq to cover its policymaking mistakes in that country. The increase in the number of American military forces can escalate insecurity and tension in Iraq and work against solving that country's problems."

Vali Nasr, a Middle East analyst at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, on why Bush's strategy fails to comprehend the legitimate concerns of Shiites who support both the al-Maliki government and their militias. "The Shia are petrified of the (Sunni) insurgents," he said. "When we talk about dismantling Shia militias, to the Shia populace it means dismantling their main line of defense without showing what are we going to do with the main threat to them."

Ask not Madame Sheehan but a few credentialed bigwigs on the DC homefront:

"The Shiite militias will welcome our assault and treat this as an opportunity to mobilize the entire Shiite population against us," said retired Col. Douglas Macgregor, an adviser to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2003.

"The troop commitment announced still leaves us a long way short of what people normally... want to pacify a city the size of Baghdad, much less all of central Iraq," Biddle said. "You‘re going to have to rely very heavily on Iraqi security forces that have not proven up to this in the past and probably won‘t."

"I've gone along with the president on this and I've bought into his dream and at this stage of the game I just don't think it's going to happen," said Republican Senator George Voinovich, sounding bitter and resigned.

The morning papers had already scathingly dissected Bush's ideas about Iraq(but failed to focus on the hint of attacks on Syria and Iran, obviously lockstepping AIPAC's deluded agenda but more on this below--[Italics mine]), such as the one that "most of Iraq's Sunni and Shia want to live together in peace." The NewYork Times described the war (that it vociferously cheered at the schocked in awe phase)as a "disaster" and the new strategy as Bush's "epic gamble." The Washington Post called the plan "very risky" and predicted that U.S. soldiers "will die in larger numbers than before." USA Today wrote that the chances that the plan would "achieve a stable Iraq" are "a long shot." Even the Wall Street Journal (notorious neocon zionist shill)was (lukewarmly) critical: While it sympathized with Bush in general terms as usual, the paper acknowledged that convincing Americans to support a strategy of brute military force would be a "challenge."

The arbiters and implementers of this dubious surge into the butchery of Baghdad and its duplicitous overreach to ultimately include attacks on Iran and Syria in collusion with Israel are hardly couching the immediate plan in terms that resonate confidence--DefSec Gates ladled out the ubiquitous 'if' word (one eye toward future bureaucratic endeavors should some future President come calling) in his hesitating and waffling support--

President Bush's prime-time address according to Mackubin Thomas Owens a professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College acknowledged the shortcomings of past efforts to secure Baghdad and implied that this new effort to do so represents a final opportunity to salvage victory in Iraq. 'Failure in Iraq, he warned, would be a disaster(once more oblivious to the current situation as both failure and disaster already reside in that desperate country).. But Mr. Bush's plan can work,' said Owens soberly but not confidently enough to aver that 'it will work'-- Hedging their bets everywhere--

Meanwhile the demies are stepping up to the plate bigtime but still lower-case opting not for failure but for symbolism...unbinding symbolism, that is... planning non-resolutely to pass a resolution condemning Bush's new/old Iraq strategy redux.-- How many demoralized repo-men will join is anybody's guess but elections are not too many years away and positioning one's posture these days is so coin-of-the-realm-- Apparently the demies desire is to symbolically isolate the Grand Decider through symbolic humiliation...nevermind that around forty demi-senators hopped on board the Shock and Awe Express during the heady days of Mission Accomplished-- It took three funerals for former President Ford and a thousand allusions to the Resignation of Milhous Nixon to finally get meekly deluded demi-supporters to whisper again non-resolutely the dreaded 'I' word-- The specter of impeachment was already making the rounds on Thursday in somebody's imagination. If the mealy demies think Everybody's Gone Surgin' is impeachable wait until escalation becomes contagion and the immolation spreads to Syria and Iran--

William S. Lind aptly defines the conundrum awaiting the 21,500

Relying on more promises from Iraq's nominal government and
requiring more performance from the Iraqi army and police are equally empty
policies. Both that government and its armed forces are mere fronts for Shiite
networks and their militias. If the new troops we send to Baghdad work with
Iraqi forces against the Sunni insurgents, we will be helping the Shiites
ethnically cleanse Baghdad of Sunnis. If, as Bush suggested, our troops go after
the Shiite militias in Baghdad and elsewhere, we will find ourselves in a
two-front war, fighting Sunnis and Shiites both. We faced that situation briefly
in 2004, and we did not enjoy it.

That Bush and the Neocon dreamfactory fail to comprehend this basic paradigm makes extant the coming tragedy as well as the present one-- Failure may not be an option but Denial is the one they seem to have chosen-- Lind continues....

Second, the President not only upped the ante with Syria and Iran, he announced
two actions that only make sense if we plan to attack Iran, Syria or both. He
said he has ordered Patriot missile batteries and another U.S. Navy aircraft
carrier be sent to the region. Neither has any conceivable role in the fighting
in Iraq. However, a carrier would provide additional aircraft for airstrikes on
Iran, and Patriot batteries would in theory provide some defense against Iranian
air and missile attacks launched at Gulf State oil facilities in retaliation.To
top it off, in questioning yesterday on Capitol Hill, the Tea Lady, aka
Secretary of State Rice, refused to promise the administration would consult
with Congress before attacking Iran or Syria.

Meanwhile, neighboring Iran warned against boosting the number of American troops in Iraq while Tony Snowjob disavowed any war plans intent on striking Iran or Syria but the seed has been planted and energy both negative and positive will be applied like fertilizer-- Such a serious subterfuge in Bush throwaway line and the media sphere lays back in the afterglow of achieving a Bush admission, however passively, 'Mistakes were made'-- Its job for the night done--

Paul Craig Roberts warns cogently

Bush makes it clear that success in Iraq does not depend on the surge. Rather, "Succeeding in Iraq .
. . begins with addressing Iran and Syria." Bush asserts that "these two
regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in
and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material support for attacks on American
troops." Bush says, "We are also taking other steps to bolster the security of
Iraq and protect American interests in the Middle East. I recently ordered the
deployment of an additional carrier strike group to the region."

Maliki appears doomed especially if he commits suicide for Bush which is what will happen if he attacks his own homeboys-- Having grown up in gated communities and glitzy suburban enclaves Bush fails to comprehend mean streets....mean third world streets.... the mean tribal streets of Sadre City-- It is beyond the field of his prepster experience-- The tacit goal of this Trojan Horse Surge may just be Malicki's demise along with his government and the crucial tipping point it would supply the Neocon Bush and their final days philosophy an invitation to the contagion of war amongst Iraq's neighbors--Yet another Way Forward-- Surgin'USA