Petraeus Doesn't Know Jack

General David Petraeus has stated, repeatedly, mind you, that the United States will be able to pull out 30,000 troops by summer '08. This, however, is a bit of a shock, seeing as how THE TROOPS THERE AREN'T GETTING THE JOB DONE! This just boggles my mind. How can a man who wrote the book...quite literally....on insurgency and how to deal with them go against his own advice?

He states in his book that to quell an insurgency, you need to have one soldier for every forty citizens in the country. Now, Iraq has around 26,000,000 people living there. And there about 170,000 U.S/Coalition troops (the words are so interchangeable now it's not even funny). Now, here's the math: there are roughly 150 Iraqis per U.S. troop. That seems a little off, in my opinion.

"It will be a long, hard grind. Right now, I think that grind is making progress."
-Ryan Crocker

This dumbass ambassador to Iraq actually believes that what we're doing in Iraq right now is working. Let me break it down:

The Iraqi government is split along religious lines, Sunni, Shi'a and Kurd (however they're represented);
The surge is an exercise in futility;
The death toll for American troops is rising fast;
At last check, 54% of Iraqis said that the attacks on U.S. troops was justified;
There are no profit-sharing agreements within the country, meaning that the dichotomy between the extremely wealthy and the extremely poor is only getting wider;

The American people do not see progress. I do not see progress. Congress, as dumb as they are, do not see progress. Crocker is right about one thing: it will be a long, hard grind. But there's only so much to grind down. Recruitment levels are down. People don't want to go to Iraq because it's an exercise in futility, one that's costing Americans their lives and sending $11 billion dollars a week down the drain. I don't even know what $1 million looks like, let alone $11 billion!

David Petraeus is a puppet, and the Bush regime is pulling the strings. He's hoping that this gig in Iraq will help him get the presidency. This has been heard by several different key Iraqi officials. This man is a patsy, nothing more. He doesn't know what he's doing in Iraq and all he wants to do is build his political career. Men like that make me sick.

I mean, come on! How do you expect to win a war when you go against your own mandate? That's the real question of the day. To see the full report, check out the link below:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/12/iraq.petraeus/index.html

-Anteaus