Exit Plan??

Strategic Pillars:
The plan sets out eight "strategic pillars" of U.S. strategy:

1. Defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency.
2. Help Iraq's security forces become self-reliant.
3. Help Iraqis forge a national compact for democratic government.
4. Help Iraq build government capacity and provide essential services.
5. Help Iraq strengthen its economy.
6. Help Iraq strengthen the rule of law and promote civil rights.
7. Increase international support for Iraq.
8. Strengthen public understanding of U.S.-led coalition efforts and public isolation of the insurgents.

Source: White House

Has this not been the plan along? The only reason I advocate staying in Iraq is based on the fact that the country would deteriorate into a breeding ground for future terrorist enterprises (a circumstance of Busholics nearsighted image of the world).

My thoughts on "Strategic Pillars":

1. Defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency. (The phrase "Mission Accomplished" comes to mind here. And now Dick "Defer me!" Cheney is providing us with the correct definition what an insurgency is?)

2. Help Iraq's security forces become self-reliant. (Forget it, most of them are too interested in American pornography* and saving their own asses to become self-reliant. Hey, if you had the most powerful military in the world at your back, doing the grunt work, would you become "self-reliant?")

3. Help Iraqis forge a national compact for democratic government. (Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, Iranians, Insurgents, al-Queda. Too many people looking to cut the throat the other one to make a cohesive national sense. Especially since the U.S. lead invasion successfully fractionalized each and everyone of them. Where is Saddam?)

4. Help Iraq build government capacity and provide essential services. (How? Provide them with expedited passport requests and issuances for their inevitableable migration to the United States?)

5. Help Iraq strengthen its economy. (Is Haliburton an Iraqi corporation?)

6. Help Iraq strengthen the rule of law and promote civil rights. (I'm willing to bet that maybe about 3% of the population of Iraq is educated enough to even know that there is such a thing as "civil rights." And whose going to teach it to them, The U.S.? Please. Rajid Par-Karmeni, the Sunni, wants to sit in the front of the bus loaded with I.E.D's.)

7. Increase international support for Iraq. (They had international support, it was called the U.N. and France. And we all know how committed France is when it comes to taking a stance against international oppression. Wait, isn't the U.N. basically run by the U.S.?)

8. Strengthen public understanding of U.S.-led coalition efforts and public isolation of the insurgents. (Translation: lie, lie, lie, and lie some more. Call Rupert Murdoch and tell him to repeat lies, over and over and over again. Kill Al-Jazeera journalists. Then add a spice of rhetoric and a little Christian charm. Cram it down middle Americas willing throats and then hide in Texas for three months on a much needed vacation.)

Source: Your Moms House

* Support of my claim in part two of Strategic Pillars: