Bush To Lay Out Latest Plan For Failure

Bush plans to give his “New Way Forward” speech this week
during which he will tell the American people his new plan to utterly fail in Iraq. According the BBC, the central theme of the speech will be "sacrifice." Sadly, he will not be telling us that he will sacrifice his daughters, but rather the sons and daughters of Americans in a war that is already lost.

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

Earlier this year we tried this plan. We took 20,000 troops from around the country and moved them into Baghdad, in an attempt to halt the sectarian violence. At first it worked, the killings slowed. But the militias adjusted and now killings are higher than they have ever been. Bush’s “new” plan for Iraq is just a repetition of this failure.

Iraq is lost. It is a disaster. The President has only shown that whatever action he takes will make Iraq worse. We only need to look at the execution of Saddam Hussein to see how Bush is an epic failure. While Saddam stood with the noose around his neck, the crowd chanted, “Muqtada! Muqtada!” They were referring to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric who controls the Mahdi Army. The same Mahdi Army we fought against in 2004 for control of the city of Najaf. Sadr is viewed as the biggest enemy of Bush in Iraq among Shiites. The Pentagon calls his militia "the main threat to stability in Iraq."

Saddam’s trial was basically run out of the US embassy in Baghdad. He was held at a US military prison. His sentence was carefully orchestrated to be delivered just two days before the midterm elections. Saddam was flown to his execution in a US helicopter. But yet when he was about to be executed the Interior Ministry guards chanted the name “Muqtada!” In what should have been a heavily controlled environment, where camera phones should not have been allowed, where every caution should have been taken to make sure not to upset the Sunni population more, there was failure once again. The results were predictable.

In the week since Saddam Hussein was hanged in an execution steeped in sectarian overtones, his public image in the Arab world, formerly that of a convicted dictator, has undergone a resurgence of admiration and awe.

On the streets, in newspapers and over the Internet, Mr. Hussein has emerged as a Sunni Arab hero who stood calm and composed as his Shiite executioners tormented and abused him.

If the American leadership could not stop the execution from being “infiltrated” by al-Sadr followers, they have no hope of controlling Baghdad with a few thousand more soldiers. The execution was just a microcosm of the disaster that is Iraq. Al-Sadr has grown roots into every level of the government and we have lost. Sending more soldiers is futile and stupid.

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