I was hoping but not expecting that Bush would be announcing the Raid on Iran to take out Iranian offensive capability. Anything less is just More Of Same. Iraq is a sideshow that has been turned into the Main Event while the major bad guy is sitting across the border building nukes and sending warriors into Iraq from an effectively unlimited well and Israel is in its last days. What is the use of building a wall of forces surrounding Iran if Iran is sacrosanct? Chaos in Iraq is not a real problem. We can use Iraq effectively, peaceful or not, as staging against Iran or just to close some loopholes for Iran as we drive against Iran's offensive and nuclear potential. Why have we made Iraq the be-all and end-all of strategy and tactics? So long as Iran exists unflattened nothing we accomplish in Iraq will last past the removal of our troops and nothing we accomplish in Iraq will stop Iran from nuking Tel Aviv. Yes it is Viet Nam all over again with much worse consequences when the Democrats force us to finally run away. Iran is the USSR and China of the 60s and Ha noi, too, but without the Communists' aversion to suicide and with no compunctions about launching nuclear war.
Do you really think he should announce that?
I agree totally! Iran needs to be taken care of NOW and I wish so much that Israel would begin it with us right with them! All the trouble in Iraq would end quickly once Iran is delt with. Makes me ill that this hasn't been done already!
The draw down will be complete by November, so figure the Iran issue will be settled by then.
One way or another, the Iranian issue will be addressed this year.
Strategery. It's ramping up... Location, location, location.