Today
insurgents in Iraq mounted a two hour, 13 town assault as
America begins its plans to draw down troops under 50,000 and will move from a combat operation to an "advise and assist" role in Iraqi security affairs. Unfortunately the attack today in Iraq, which killed at least 46 people (many police), underscores the ill-preparedness of Iraqi security forces to take over a very hostile situation created following the invasion of their country.
Obama is
poised to announce the end of combat operations on August 31 in a major speech and I have this nightmare of it being Bush's "Mission Accomplished" all over again. Bush's speech aboard
the USS Abraham Lincoln back in May of 2003 began like this:
