http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/17823.htmlBush's unwinnable war grinds on
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
What part of too little, too late doesn't the president understand? How much longer does he think he can stonewall Congress and ignore the reality on the ground in Iraq, where neither our allies nor our enemies seem to be paying much heed to George W. Bush's hopes and plans?
If the escalation of American forces to some 150,000 troops — painfully cobbled together by boosting the combat tour from 12 to 15 months and shipping over units much sooner than planned — has bought the faltering Maliki government any breathing room, they haven't done much with it.
It has not gone unnoticed that the price of that breathing room for our Iraqi allies has been paid for with a sharply escalating death toll among the American troops trying to tamp down sectarian violence in Baghdad and root out insurgents and al Qaida in Iraq fighters outside the capital.
A new report to Congress this week on how the Iraqi government has performed in meeting the benchmarks the president and his advisers set for them in selling the new surge theory to the American people is hardly encouraging.
On the all-important task of moving toward the kind of national reconciliation that might bring deadly sectarian violence under control in Iraq, the progress can best be summed up as slim to none.
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