KCConservative said:
Great. We have the strategy for this month.
Here was the strategy before:
"The goals of our coalition are clear and limited. We will end a brutal regime, whose aggression and weapons of mass destruction make it a unique threat to the world." — President George W. Bush; message to the Iraqi people, April 10, 2003.
But whatever. This time I'm sure they really mean it.
OUR STRATEGY FOR VICTORY IS CLEAR
Our Strategy is Clear: We will help the Iraqi people build a new Iraq with a constitutional, representative government that respects civil rights and has security forces sufficient to maintain domestic order and keep Iraq from becoming a safe haven for terrorists.
Translation: We will continue to occupy Iraq as long as there elements that oppose our installed government.
To achieve this end, we are pursuing a comprehensive approach that involves the integrated efforts of the entire United States Government, the Iraqi government, and Coalition governments, and encourages the active involvement of the United Nations, other international organizations, and supportive regional states.
Translation: We wish the French, German and Russians would send their troops to get shot at. But they can keep their stinking hands off the oil. Those contracts are saved for worthy companies, like Halliburton.
Our strategy involves three integrated tracks -- political, security, and economic -- each with separate objectives, but together helping Iraqis to defeat the terrorists, Saddamists, and rejectionists, and secure a new democratic state in Iraq.
Translation: You think the $250 billion spent so far is a lot?
The Political Track
(Isolate, Engage, Build)
Objective: To help the Iraqi people forge a broadly supported national compact for democratic government, thereby isolating enemy elements from the broader public.
To achieve this objective, we are helping the Iraqi government:
Isolate hardened enemy elements from those who can be won over to a peaceful political process by countering false propaganda and demonstrating to the Iraqi people that they have a stake in a viable, democratic Iraq.
Engage those outside the political process and invite in those willing to turn away from violence through ever-expanding avenues of peaceful participation.
Build stable, pluralistic, and effective national institutions that can protect the interests of all Iraqis, and facilitate Iraq's full integration into the international community.
Translation: We will control the media and bribe them to report our version of the news. We will continue to support the Shia and Kurdish militias in there effort to suppress the Sunnis, and hope that someday when they use the arms we are giving them to extract revenge we don't end up fighting the same people we armed. But given past US experiences with this sort of thing, there is a good chance that is exactly what we will have to do. Just like we had to invade Iraq for (supposedly) having WMDs we encouraged them to purchase during the Reagan/Bush era.
Those who have a problem with foreign forces occupying their country and determining their government will continue to face military force. And we will deal with them in our secret torture prisons, unless those darn traitors senators led my McCain mess things up.
The Security Track
(Clear, Hold, Build)
Objective: To develop the Iraqis' capacity to secure their country while carrying out a campaign to defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency.
To achieve this objective, we are helping the Iraqi government:
Clear areas of enemy control by remaining on the offensive, killing and capturing enemy fighters and denying them safe-haven. Hold areas freed from enemy control by ensuring that they remain under the control of a peaceful Iraqi government with an adequate Iraqi security force presence.
Build Iraqi Security Forces and the capacity of local institutions to deliver services, advance the rule of law, and nurture civil society.
Translation: Same stuff we've been saying for 2 1/2 years now. But the insurgency is in its death throes. So whenever they decide it is wonderful having US troops occupying their country, we will withdraw. Heh heh.
The Economic Track
(Restore, Reform, Build)
Objective: To assist the Iraqi government in establishing the foundations for a sound economy with the capacity to deliver essential services.
To achieve this objective, we are helping the Iraqi government:
Restore Iraq's neglected infrastructure so it can meet increasing demand and the needs of a growing economy.
Reform Iraq's economy, which has been shaped by war, dictatorship, and sanctions, so that it can be self-sustaining in the future.
Build the capacity of Iraqi institutions to maintain infrastructure, rejoin the international economic community, and improve the general welfare of all Iraqis.
Translation: We conservatives think foreign aid is a huge waste of money. Except when we have made gross errors and it is necessary to try to cover them up. Then spending 10x that amount is a great plan and every American should support it.
This is spelled out as specifically as can be. There will not be a 'time table', Gibberish. Why would we give al-jazeera, al-quida and the rest of the world a time table. That would not be smart warfare..
Translation: Iraq was invaded on completely erroneous representations about the threat it posed and how the Iraqs would react happily after we bombed the crap out of them and let thousands of terrorists into their country. But rather than admit we made a mistake, we are going to make them have a pro-US government whether they want it or not.
We will not give a date to withdraw, because then we would actually have to pull the troops out of Iraq, and if we did that, the US supported government would collapse. That would be very embarrassing to the Administration because it would prove how freaking screwed up this whole operation was from the get-go. So instead we will make unattainable objectives so we can have an excuse for keeping troops their as long as we want them there. Which is, as long as necessary to prop up the pro-US government. And if more US soldiers die, tough, they like being there. And, on the chance we actually appear to be attaining an objective, we will change the objective so we can justify keeping troops there. At least until this administration leaves office, so someone else can inherit this mess and be blamed for withdrawing.
Because we are the Republicans, the Bush adminstration, and we can never admit we are wrong. It ain't manly.