Dying to Go on Vacation

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7121

Dying to Go on Vacation
by Stephen Pizzo | Apr 28 2007


Whether you are for the war or against it, if this piece of news doesn't piss you off you must not have a pulse.

Let me set this up before I give you the punchline.

The Bush administration's stated reason for the surge is to create the kind of order and relative peace in Baghdad so that the Iraqi Parliament can get about the business of addressing the sectarian issues that divide the country.

And, according to the Bush administration the surge will be in full force by this summer – as in July and August. Already American deaths are way up as the surge, surges in search of that goal.

U.S. death toll in March twice that of Iraq forces

April 1: BAGHDAD - The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the capital, surrounding cities and Anbar province, according to figures compiled on Saturday. (Full story)

Okay, so are you sitting down? Guess what.

The Iraqi parliament refuses to cancel it's two-month long annual summer recess (vacation.)

When? July and August.

more...

[Arkansas Granny]

1. That's right. While our troops are trying to give them a little space,

a little breathing room, as it were, so they can effect a political solution to the greatest problems facing their young democracy, they are spending 2 months on vacation.

:wow: :wtf:

[badgerpup]

2. I be damn! They got this democracy thing down then!

As practiced by George Bush, that is...

:grr::puke::banghead: