churlish thoughts

Today's delectatio morosa

I tend to agree with Colin Powell's assessment that plans to send more troops to Iraq is a WTF?  Not that we send them, but the way we will do it. Face it, by turning congress over to the surrender monkeys last month, we announced our de facto, if not de lege ferenda, national intention to cut and run.  If the current plan is to, de integro,  go in and kill Muqtada al-Sadr, and other bad guys, you can't announce that it's a temp deployment or they'll simply go to the mattresses for the duration. I suggest an old fashioned parachute drop of the 82nd, 101st, and whatever other jump forces we have, into a city of choice, and sweep it clean.   I tell the troops up front that, no matter what they do, I will pardon them (I'm of course the President here).  Blam-blam-blam.  Also. anyone who suggests talking with Iran about keeping the peace in Iraq is unfit, and should be removed from whatever seat of influence he/she holds. Also, if Bush is actually going to cut a deal with the new congress to raise taxes, I don't care about any of this, because I'm dropping behind the scenes, and joining the resistance.  Docendo disco, scribendo cogito