In a "duhhhhhh" moment

Senator Tom Carper Starts off with talking sense in this story:

"I wish more of my colleagues, and folks like Howard Dean, would try going to Iraq to see the situation there for themselves," Carper told The News Journal.

I'm with you there, Tom... but then you go and say something like this:

Carper will take to the Senate floor Wednesday to discuss his observations in more depth. Anyone who has visited Iraq and talked to the people there, he said, "is not going to come back thinking this thing is going to be won militarily. It's not."

Instead, Carper said, he backs a policy of gradual withdrawal of U.S. forces as Iraqis take over military and political operations in their country. (emphasis mine)

Well, Senator Carper.. what the heck do you think that Bush's strategy has been all along?

Coalition troop levels, for example, will increase where necessary to defeat the enemy or provide additional security for key events like the referendum and elections. But troop levels will decrease over time, as Iraqis continue to take on more of the security and civilian responsibilities themselves.(emphasis added).

You'd think that Carper had re-invented the wheel.



(Filed under Iraq)