[LZ_Bayonet]

"Instead they would tie the measure to political advances by the Iraqi government."

This is the "top down" strategy that didn't work. General Petraeus is utilizing a "bottom up" strategy (because "it works"). Don't these people in Washington keep themselves current on what is really happening in the Iraq Campaign?

[goldstategop]

These are the same incompetents that can't pass a federal budget on time and here they want to tell the Iraqi government how to do its job! Haha haha haha

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus