It's official the surge in on

What to say after last night that hasn’t already been said. Because of an incredibly incompetent and arrogant administration the United States find itself in this situation.

Here’s something that Bush said that puzzles me:

I have made it clear to the prime minister and Iraq’s other leaders that America’s commitment is not open-ended. If the Iraqi government does not follow through on its promises, it will lose the support of the American people. And it will lose the support of the Iraqi people.

I think the Iraqi government has already lost the support of the American people. But here’s the thing. What happens if the Iraqis don’t meet the commitments they say they will. What will America do in response? Bush says we can’t loose in Iraq. So what could we possibly do to make the Iraqis come into line? I don’t see how we have any pressure at all to bring against the Maliki government at all.

And something that I find really disturbing is this:

Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity and stabilizing the region in the face of the extremist challenge.

This begins with addressing Iran and Syria. These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.

It seems not content to just fighting a war in Iraq; it seems we might be invading Iran and Syria too.

This from Secretary Gates:

I don’t think anybody has a definite idea of how long a surge would last,” Gates told the House Armed Services committee. “I think for most of us in our minds we’re thinking of it as a matter of months, not 18 months or two years.”

How are you possibly going to make any difference in a matter of months, especially when it will take a few months to get all the troops to Iraq. And to be totally honest if is the plan there are not enough troops going.

As for Secretary Rice again from the Post:

Rice said there also will be a “civilian surge” in State Department diplomats and reconstruction experts. She said she hopes they will move “into the field” outside the protected confines of the Green Zone and get more involved with Iraqi officials, and she announced a dramatic increase in the number of Provincial Reconstruction Teams that will aim at bolstering local infrastructure and government operations around the country.

Gosh don’t you think this would have happened oh I don’t know months ago.

I hope this work so that we can get the hell out of there.

But to be honest this new direction in Iraq looks a day late and a dollar short.