Does that make sense when the minute they're gone the "security" is gone, too? Is that just postponing the inevitable, so that Bush can attempt to blame the Ds? Is this stacking folly upon folly?

What about the rest of the country? Who controls Fallujah? After all, the US has "taken" it, twice.

If Bush could wage a war successfully, this would be over. He's demonstrated he can't.

WASHINGTON - "Although nothing is final until President Bush puts his stamp on it, administration officials tell NBC News the president has all but decided on a temporary surge of additional American forces into Iraq in an effort to bring sectarian violence in Baghdad under control."

Arf