Apr 20 2007
The Policy of “When They Stand Up We’ll Stand Down” is Over
Taking a break from fatherly duties quickly…
… and another “Great Iraqi Policy Promises by George W. Bush” has met it’s death…
Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.
Training Iraqi troops, which had been the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy since 2005, has dropped in priority, officials in Baghdad and Washington said.
No change has been announced, and a Pentagon spokesman, Col. Gary Keck, said training Iraqis remains important. “We are just adding another leg to our mission,” Keck said, referring to the greater U.S. role in establishing security that new troops arriving in Iraq will undertake. - McClatchy News
The President got all the mileage out of this slogan he could, and now it’s been tossed into the proverbial wastebasket with the rest of his failed plans. Developments like this just make me believe even more that President Bush wants nothing more than an endless war.
