House Resolution

Well, I personally find the House resolution condemning the surge to be incredibly stupid from both a practical and political point of view. In the movie industry, this would be the equivalent of a producer coming onto set and telling the director he's putting the camera in the wrong place. It's basically Congress saying 20,000 troops is the wrong idea, when the general in charge of Iraq thinks its the right idea...and then not having the balls to exercise any of their own power (or just do their job) to stop it, by say, cutting off funding.

From a political point of view it is stupid as well. Say the surge works, the dems who signed the resolution are going to look like idiots for opposing it. Say the surge doesn't work, then the dems who signed the resolution are going to look like weenies for not doing what was in their power to do - cut off funding for the war. Either way, they lose, or at least don't win...

Meanwhile Sadr has left Iraq which seems to me a good thing. This analysis sums it up well.

So since we're losing...who again is winning over there?