There was no "post-invasion" plan because we were to be "greeted as liberators", which didnt happen. Now, there is no "post-surge" plan.

 

GAO Report Faults Post-'Surge' Planning

 

The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the "surge" of combat troops President Bush launched in January 2007 as an 18-month effort to curtail violence and build Iraqi democracy, government investigators said yesterday.

 

While agreeing with the administration that violence has decreased sharply, a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office concluded that many other goals Bush outlined a year and a half ago in the "New Way Forward" strategy remain unmet.

 

The report, after a bleak GAO assessment last summer, cited little improvement in the ability of the Iraqi security forces to act independently of the U.S. military, and noted that key legislation passed by the Iraqi parliament had not been implemented while other crucial laws had not been passed. The report also judged that key Iraqi ministries spent less of their allocated budgets last year than in previous years, and said that oil and electricity production had repeatedly not met U.S. targets.

 

Bush's strategy of January 2007, the GAO said, "defined the original goals and objectives that the Administration believed were achievable by the end of this phase in July 2008." Not meeting many of them changed circumstances on the ground and the pending withdrawal of the last of the additional U.S. forces mean that strategy is now outdated, the report said. The GAO recommends that the State and Defense departments work together to fashion a new approach.

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Expecting there to have been a "Post surge plan" is tantamount to misunderstanding the nature of the Surge. The surge was, no matter what they say, designed to do one thing...to give the Administration time for its term to finish so that someone else could take over and figure out the mess or take blame for the final collapse.

Expecting there to have been a "Post surge plan" is tantamount to misunderstanding the nature of the Surge. The surge was, no matter what they say, designed to do one thing...to give the Administration time for its term to finish so that someone else could take over and figure out the mess or take blame for the final collapse.

The surge was really a cover to buy more time to negotiate with the terrorists. (Kind of ironic, don'tcha think??)

The surge was really a cover to buy more time to negotiate with the terrorists. (Kind of ironic, don'tcha think??)

I thought the GOP thought negotiating with terrorists was naive?

what a great president this guy's been.

I thought the GOP thought negotiating with terrorists was naive?

You know for once I was agreeing with you and you still have to find something to mock. Amazing.

 

You know for once I was agreeing with you and you still have to find something to mock. Amazing.

My bad. I think I skipped over the line in parenthesis.

 

 

My bad. I think I skipped over the line in parenthesis.

Fair enough.

 

I'm convinced that's all the "surge" was meant to do is buy us more time - and I think a part was to "negotiate".

 

I also think that we're at a very important crossroads - one more important then waiting 9 months from now to "figure it out".