White House Alone on Surge, Literally

I find this to be simply amazing.

Congress doesn't want an escalation.

The American people don't want an escalation.

Iraq, for the love of God, doesn't want an escalation.

The only people who are in favor of this are the ones who actually work in the White House, and, for the President, that appears to be enough. Just another example of his "I'm doing what I wanna do no matter what the country wants" attitude.

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“The government believes there is no need for extra troops from the American side,” Haidar al-Abadi, a Parliament member and close associate of Mr. Maliki, said Wednesday. “The existing troops can do the job.”

It is an opinion that is broadly held among a Shiite political elite that is increasingly impatient, after nearly two years heading the government here, to exercise power without the constraining supervision of the United States. As a long-oppressed majority, the Shiites have a deep-seated fear that the power they won at the polls, after centuries of subjugation by the Sunni minority, will be progressively whittled away as the Americans seek deals with the Sunnis that will help bring American troops home.
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They don't want us there at all. And honestly, who are we fighting and what are we fighting for? The Shiite majority wants to take control of the country without our help or intervention (and probably to take a little revenge on the Sunnis) and the Sunnis are blowing up car bombs in the streets. Who are we trying to protect? The Shiites that can protect themselves now that they're in power? The Sunnis who are trying to kill us?

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Shiite suspicions of the American troop increase reflect a tectonic shift in the political realities here. Shiites, the principal victims of Saddam Hussein’s repression, had joined with Iraqi Kurds in hailing the American-led invasion in 2003, seeing it as opening their way to power. But once they consolidated their control through two elections in 2005, they began distancing themselves from the Americans, seeing their liberators increasingly as an impediment to the full control they craved.

By contrast, moderate Sunnis, who were deeply alienated by the American occupation at an earlier stage of the war, are now looking to Americans for protection, as Shiite militias have moved into Sunni neighborhoods in a deadly cycle of revenge. On Wednesday, moderate Sunni politicians hailed the idea of more American troops.
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Seriously. What's the plan here?