anyone wanna guess what'll result from this?

U.S. to keep most troops in Baghdad
By Peter Spiegel and Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
December 15, 2007
CAMP VICTORY, IRAQ -- In a change of plans, American commanders in Iraq have decided to keep the bulk of their forces concentrated in Baghdad when the U.S. troop buildup ends next year, removing extra troops instead from outlying areas of the country.

The change represents the military's first attempt to confront its big challenge in 2008: how to reduce the number of troops without sacrificing security.

Another change in strategy with no clear notion of any strategic objective! Why do we keep changing our plans? Simple: 'cause we have no idea what we want to achieve! The strategic objective implicit in this latest "strategy" is to keep Baghdad calm. Okay. I guess that's a start. What about the rest of the country? When all hell breaks loose in Samarra, Basra, Mosul, Najaf... what then? Another surge? The next grand new "strategy"?

All original war aims have been achieved:
1) Iraq has no WMD
2) Saddam has been deposed... and executed for war crimes
3) Democracy has been established
--- Constitution in place
--- Elections held
--- Government seated

The on-going violence? Not a problem:
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."
SecDef Rumsfeld, 12 Apr 2003

The Iraqis are exercising their freedom with a vengeance!

Stop the madness!