Enough is Enough

I’m putting my foot down. If I hear one more cheap pun in reference to the Iraq war, I may give up on you “liberal media” types altogether. This isn’t the 1920s vaudeville stage; how many times do I need to hear a news commentator say “between Iraq and a hard place,” muffling a snicker and a secret desire to be the first person to turn the phrase?

Still, it gives me something to gripe about after all these weeks of tenuous silence.

Yes! Let it be known! THE FIRST DAZE OF SCHOOL is back, bringing you nothing but unadulterated originality – no regurgitation of blogospheric babble or mediocre meditations on today’s menial mass media!

Speaking of which, how about that insurgency! In a word, Sadr-ific!

Never to fear, Bush is back on the bandwagon ready to announce his latest genius strategy, which apparently is the result of intense deliberations with everyone in Washington except the Iraq Study Group.

I will now attempt to outline the president’s complex plan in the most simple language possible:

SURGE!!! SURGE!!! SURGE!!!

Actually that’s all we know about it since, for some reason, a president should never reveal his true intentions until after all holiday gift cards have been spent. Maybe he just didn’t want to put a damper on Christmas for the families of those servicemen and women who will be called to step into the line of fire-bombs and IEDs, returning to Iraq earlier than expected for their 3^rd tour of duty?

Who’s behind the wheel of this disaster train, anyway? It doesn’t take a Yale graduate to realize that boosting the number of troops in Iraq when public opinion of the war is at an all-time low is serious political misstep.

The mission in Iraq is a complete failure; America needs to recognize this, and find a way to get out. Bush and his cronies have had nearly four years to prosecute this war – and now they want us to believe that if we give them one more chance, one more blank check – if we can send a few more troops (I’m sorry, accelerate troop deployment), we’ll be able to put the pieces back together. Maybe they just want to prolong the war until a Democrat takes over the presidency so they can blame ultimate failure on him/her!

Enough is enough. I’m taking a stand against President Bush: NO MORE CHANCES. Admit failure and begin a phased withdrawal that puts responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis, and gives American families a timetable of when their sons and daughters will come home.