...or is George W. Bush the single most clueless person in America?

Today's Washington Post (I'm sure most metro dailies are similar) carried a headline, "Bush to Add Troops in Baghdad, Citing 'Terrible' Sectarian Strife".
The piece goes on to say that the president intends to send more troops to Iraq in an effort to quell sectarian fighting.

Let's forget for a minute that this administration has had three years and three months to "help quell sectarian violence". Let's also forget that practically every general short of Custer and Patton has stated that we don't have, and have never had, enough troops on the ground in Iraq.

The President of the United States, with access to more intelligence than anyone in the world, has apparently cancelled his subscription to every daily publication in America, save The Wall Street Journal (and maybe The Sporting News).

The fighting that has killed 50,000 Iraqi citizens has been getting enough ink in this country to make Paris Hilton jealous. Coma patients know that we are short of troops in Iraq. Even some of the moron 'make-it-up-as-you-go-along-right-wing' screamers on radio talk shows have suggested more men in uniform in the Middle East would be wise. It took a visit from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (George had to write that one on his cuff) to put George wise to the 411.

Can you imagine the conversation with Cheney and Rumsfeld later in the day? "Dick, Nouri was just here and he tells me that we don't have enough Americans in Iraq to stop the Shiites from killing the Sunnis..or whichever. Is that true?"

"No sir. Unfortunately the Iraqi Prime Minister bought a copy of The New York Times at Dulles and it filled his head with all sorts of crazy ideas. Next he'll be telling us that stem cell research is vital to help cure Alzheimers."

As usual, mainstream media, fearful of being called "liberal", (God forbid), gives old George a pass. (See also Jack Abramoff, Ken Lay, Tom DeLay, etc.) No one to the right of Cindy Sheehan, including the other 2,400 or so mothers of fallen servicemen calls up the Red State Record or whatever the loacl paper happens to be and yells into phone, "My son/daughter might be alive today if George had pulled his head out of his ass a year ago."

For the record: If you must invade countries that haven't attacked us, for God sake at least have some idea what you plan to do once you get there. Purple thumbs make for great color photos in Time magazine, but all the multi-colored digits in the world won't create stability in Iraq until the people in question bring it about themselves. Democracy is a home grown commodity.

Now that George has seen the light with regards troop strength, he can endeavour to ascertain from where those new soldiers will come. Certainly not from the "coalition of the willing". Last time I looked, that mighty band consisted of Great Britian and three or four countries with a GNP about the size of your local McDonald's. Tony Blair is already challenging George Bush for the lowest approval rating since Herbert Hoover. If Blair announces an increase in troop strength from the UK, he'll be calling GW for aslyum.

Let's face it gang - this is America's war and Americans are fighting it. If leaving is not an option, then we had better send a force large enough to do the job.
If George had been something more than a by-stander in Vietnam, he would have heard of General Giap who said, "Never engage the enemy until you have an overwhelming advantage."