[TeenagedConservative]

This "strategy" will only result in more senseless bloodshed unless the Bush administration allows the troops to go after the militias and loosens the ROEs.

[El Gato]

unless the Bush administration allows the troops to go after the militias and loosens the ROEs.

I guess you didn't go to the White House site and read about "going after Iranian actors (read Al Sadar and other Shiites working under Iranian tutelage), and there's a bunch about disarming/disbanding the militias.

I think the ROEs they are a changin.

[jwalsh07]

This "strategy" will only result in more senseless bloodshed unless the Bush administration allows the troops to go after the militias and loosens the ROEs.

President Bush has specifically stated that the ROE have chnaged. He's also made it clear to Maliki that the militias are fair game and since the ROE has changed I assume that means a lot of killing.

I was dubious about an increase in troops unless the ORE changed, Baghdad was the focus of most of those troops and something was done about Sadr. 4000 Marines are going to Anbar. I think President Bush and Maliki both understand that this is the last shot at the apple.

So I support the troop increase and wish President Bush, General Petraeus and the troops Godspeed.

[Rhiannon]

The speech specifically said will go after the militia's.