Tuesday, September 09, 2008
The check is in the mail
...and, somehow, the troop pullouts from Iraq are always sometime in the future. Although that didn't start a local newscaster from starting a sentence, "While troop levels in Iraq are decreasing..." No, they are not. They may, sometime in the future.
Meanwhile, George Bush says an increase in troops in Afghanistan (U.S. and members of the coalition of the billing) is a "quiet surge." I'm not sure how much of that "quiet" the Afghan people can stand.