The President will speak to the nation (at least those willing to listen) Wednesday night regarding yet another change of direction in Iraq. This time the Pres. will announce his intention to increase troops in Iraq by 20,000 combined with new economic incentives theoretically conditioned upon political benchmarks for the pitifully ineffectual Iraqi government. reshuffled the military deck to come up with soldiers that believe (?) the new strategy can work.
Republican support for this strategy is weak within the Administration itself let alone in Congress. Irrespective, I think the President will ultimately get his way - this time at least - but with an extremely short leash. I think this sets up a really ugly late '07 going into '08 for this Administration. This is a tactical and political mess of enormous proportions. I do not believe this "new" stategy has a snowball's chance in hell of working.
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