McClatchy: U.S. seeks new ways to address renewed violence in Iraq

[babylonsister]

They still don't have a clue but are bound and determined to get Americans and Iraqis killed. :banghead:


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17270118.htm

U.S. seeks new ways to address renewed violence in Iraq
By John Walcott and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Less than five months after President Bush announced that "we need to change our strategy in Iraq," his administration is preparing to change course there once again, this time emphasizing political rather than military progress.

The administration's latest Iraq strategy, which military and civilian officials in Baghdad and Washington are assembling and national security adviser Stephen Hadley is coordinating, stresses efforts to strengthen the Iraqi army and the central government and weaken sectarian forces, said three U.S. officials who have firsthand knowledge of the plan.

The officials, all of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they aren't authorized to discuss Iraq policy publicly, said the evolving plan - which Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are preparing - didn't envision any significant drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq before 2008.

However, they said, "the search for a new direction," as one of the officials described the effort, was prompted by a recognition that the increase of American and Iraqi troops in Baghdad hasn't produced the improvements in security or the political progress that proponents of the buildup had expected and that domestic support for the administration's Iraq policy, even among Republicans, is ebbing quickly.

The administration's new Iraq war "czar," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, remains skeptical that the surge can succeed, and instead has favored the kinds of political steps that Petraeus and Crocker have advocated, one of the officials said.

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[AuntPatsy]

1. Whatever happend to mission accomplished???I am glad there is an icon

for knocking your head on a wall at thier continued ignorance that has lost so many lives and continues unrelenting because I can imagine you more than likely feel like doing that for real...after a time you get lost for words...

[babylonsister]

2. Seems to me their ignorance and incompetence is mind-boggling,

yet they continue to waste the lives of others in their quest to find their way through this. Has anyone even considered it's not going to work, regardless of their maneuvering? I feel for everyone touched by that ignorance.