Was there an old plan?

Meeting American reporters over lunch at a villa in the grounds of one of Mr. Hussein’s former palaces, General Odierno was careful not to divulge details of Mr. Bush’s new war plan, which the president is expected to make public in coming days, perhaps on Wednesday.

Well, yeah, but I'm asking here.

Several other military plans since the fall of Baghdad in 2003 have faltered.

Ah. Faltered. Right.

This time, the general said, American troops would remain in the cleared areas “24/7,” to stiffen Iraqi resolve and build confidence among residents that they would be treated evenhandedly.

So. Stiffening Iraqi resolve. That's different from standing them up?

This so-called surge would constitute an abrupt about-face in American strategy, which has aimed in the past two years for a drawdown of American troops as Iraqi forces take on greater responsibility for the war.

So that'll do it then?

The new American operational commander in Iraq said Sunday that even with the additional American troops likely to be deployed in Baghdad under President Bush’s new war strategy it might take another “two or three years” for American and Iraqi forces to gain the upper hand in the war.

Oh.

The "two or three years" part is just about right. The DOOFUS's "strategy" is to do one of two things: either stall until his term ends and his successor has to pull the plug, or force the D's to drag him, kicking and screaming, away from his precious war. Then he and his cadre of blabbermonkeys will claim we would have "won" if only we'd stayed longer, not quit so soon, and blame the whole thing on Jane Fonda again. More troops die to save Dubya's ass.