Nice to see Teresita back, btw.

Right flank at Gettysburg, actually, on the previous day, and overrun the Round Tops. Makes the whole Pickett’s Charge thing rather moot, don’t you think?

This has nothing to do with Brigade Capability, btw. Rather, it has everything to do with standing up the Iraqi government over the next few years (which is about to come into about 250-300 billion barrels of oil) and keeping out the neighbors, and getting out responsibly.

Having actually won the conflict and achieved our main strategic objectives of getting rid of Saddam and standing up a Arabist “democracy”, we can now begin to leave. However, a withdrawal timeline of, say, three years as proposed by the Maliki Government makes a whole lot more sense than the 16 month bugout that Obambi promised his primary supporters.

It’s always humiliating when the head of an Arab Government is the one who has his head screwed on properly, while the Democratic Nominee is the guy in search of a clue.