Reid said the recommendation by Gen. David Petraeus, expected to be embraced on Thursday by President Bush in a speech to the nation, "is neither a drawdown or a change in mission that we need. His plan is just more of the same."
What remains to be seen is whether Reid or any of the Ds can do anything about it. My guess is no. Bush, with a little help from his pet general, has run out the clock. "If conditions are favorable" (what conditions remain unspecified), by this time next year the so-called surge will have come to an end and we will be back in about the same place we were a year ago when the vaunted Iraq Study Group, behind whose skirts Bush had hidden for months, said it was time to start getting out and Bush, stamping his little feet, instead got in. The so-called surge will have accomplished essentially nothing in Iraq; Bush himself will have snuck out the back door.
The whole game here is to blame whatever happens next on the Ds, whether the next president is a D (not by any means a sure thing, IMO, BTW) or an R. The Faux waryakkers will see to that. And the Ds don't have the game to do anything about it, as far as I can see.
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