Obama's plan was to leave.
How would have this brought success?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25573237/page/2/Troops should be withdrawn, he said in 2006, but the president should “work with our military commanders” to figure out the best plan to do so.
“I am not suggesting this timetable be overly rigid,” he said. “We should be willing to adjust to the realties on the ground.” What Obama said last week echoes this.
And the withdrawal, Obama said in 2006, “could be suspended if at any point U.S. commanders believe that a further reduction would put American troops in danger.”
The Brits did this to a disastrous result in Basra.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601401_pf.htmlAs British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq's Shiite-dominated national government will turn on one another once U.S. troops begin to draw down.
Three major Shiite political groups are locked in a bloody conflict that has left the city in the hands of militias and criminal gangs, whose control extends to municipal offices and neighborhood streets. The city is plagued by "the systematic misuse of official institutions, political assassinations, tribal vendettas, neighborhood vigilantism and enforcement of social mores, together with the rise of criminal mafias that increasingly intermingle with political actors," a recent report by the International Crisis Group said.
The American military had to help the Iraq soldiers retake Basra while the Brits hungout at the airport.
His plan wouldn't of worked.Another free pass.