Thursday, January 11, 2007

Tiptoe Through the Troop Surge

Congressman Mike Rogers has plunged into the Brave New World of the 110th Congress. According to The Buzz in Monday's Press & Argus, the New and Improved Mike is blissfully bipartisan (Nancy Pelosi as Speaker is an "historic achievement"). On today's P&A front page, we find that Rogers balks at troop 'surge'

Gee, even the Press and Argus knows that "surge" is just a shorter & more
tasteful way of spelling "escalation."


In the early part of the Democratic majority’s Hundred Hour legislative push, Rogers is artfully reading the political tea leaves and moving away from his lockstep unity with Bush on Iraq policy. He has "concerns" that a troop increase won't have the "desired outcome"

"America's military men and women who have sacrificed so much must know that the new way forward in Iraq is a plan in which the military mission and the rules of engagement are clearly defined, and specific benchmarks are outlined for Iraqis to take over so our troops can come home."

Fair enough -- but three years and 3,000 deaths later we're still waiting for that clearly defined mission and those specific benchmarks.

One can only hope that Rogers' "concern" will surge to the point that he develops a backbone and stands up to the President on this sad and wasteful war.

2 comments:

BleedingBlue said...

I higly doubt Mike Rogers will EVER do ANYTHING to help our troops. I seem to notice a lot of people make decision for our men and women who do not know anything about sacrafice. If all these people, including the president really cared for our troops they wouldn't have let this massacre (here i mean this in terms of our troops, and innocent Iraqui's as well) of people continue for so long. I really like what you have to say here, although sadly I don't know how much impovement is coming after the speech I heard last night.

yorkark said...

We need to find out WHO HE DOES REPRESENT OTHER THEN HIS HIGH DOLLAR CONTRIBUTORS?