Bush's New Strategy

By Robert Fisk
The Independent UK

Thursday 11 January 2007

So into the graveyard of Iraq, George Bush, commander-in-chief, is to send another 21,000 of his soldiers. The march of folly is to continue ...

There will be timetables, deadlines, benchmarks, goals for both America and its Iraqi satraps. But the war against terror can still be won. We shall prevail. Victory or death. And it shall be death.

President Bush's announcement early this morning tolled every bell. A billion dollars of extra aid for Iraq, a diary of future success as the Shia powers of Iraq - still to be referred to as the "democratically elected government" - march in lockstep with America's best men and women to restore order and strike fear into the hearts of al-Qa'ida. It will take time - oh, yes, it will take years, at least three in the words of Washington's top commander in the field, General Raymond Odierno this week - but the mission will be accomplished.