Despite more might - Bush still not right

Mission Not Accomplished: The President of the United States will announce tonight that he plans to send more troops to help fight in Iraq despite the fact that he declared major military operations over in May of 2003.

Here's an update from Steve Clemons on what to expect from the Shrub...

"Bush will offer a billion dollar jobs plan Wednesday night -- small change actually given the employment problem in Iraq -- in addition to an escalation of America's troop presence focused on stabilizing Baghdad. And he has all sorts of glitzy personnel changes to announce that are really just shuffling chairs around on a sinking ship.

In this short piece that appeared in the Financial Times, Trita Parsi makes clear why it's important to start negotiations with Iran before things fly further out of control. I don't agree with everything in Parsi's short essay -- but his articulation of an Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy war in Iraq is chilling, and possible."

According to the front page of todays Washington Post

"Pentagon insiders say members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have long opposed the increase in troops and are only grudgingly going along with the plan because they have been promised that the military escalation will be matched by renewed political and economic efforts in Iraq.
Yet...
Those who favored a "surge," such as Kagan and McCain, were looking for a sizable force that would turn the tide in Baghdad. But the Joint Chiefs made clear they could muster 20,000 at best -- not for long, and not all at once."