"Bush: War skeptics 'proposing nothing'"
Now, I'm not wholly against the "surge". I happen to feel that it won't really change much. What am I against?
This administration has had its share of mistakes. To this day, I believe that we didn't commit enough troops to Afghanistan to fully get the job done. Afghanistan aside, I didn't necessarily agree with the Iraq thing. Now, nobody came and asked me, but we went in guns blazing and potentially believing that our military would be showered with flowers and candy. We are there. Now, I probably happen to be one of the few with my political affiliation who believe that it would be a mistake to just outright leave Iraq to solve all of its problems completely on its own. But, I believe that we could do much more to show the Iraqi government that we mean business when we say that they will have to take over for themselves in a relatively short amount of time. Bush's speech gave that notion lip service by saying something like "I've made it clear to the Prime Minister and Iraq's other leaders that America's commitment is not open-ended."
Bush asks what critics would recommend. I would recommend the attempt to fully implement the 79 recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. The report was close to nine months in the making. The group cost the American taxpayer $1,000,000. Considering the cost of some other things, that's not too bad. But, the people who developed the report are highly regarded individuals with significant experience in the fields necessary to formulate a potentially effective course of action to move forward in Iraq. Unfortunately, the administration's implementation of that course of action will only be piecemeal. Par for the course...
That is what I am against.
