Guardian: Bush wants a big push for Victory in Iraq

From Robert Bolt's Academy Award winning screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia:

Lawrence has been tortured (raped?) by the Turkish Bey in Deraa. Back in Jerusalem he tells General Allenby that he want to stop fighting, but Allenby has other plans for Lawrence.

ALLENBY
You're an important part of the Big Push!

LAWRENCE
I don't want to be part of your big push!!

ALLENBY
What in hell do you want, Lawrence?

LAWRENCE
I've told you -- I just want my ration of common humanity.

The American voters have just demanded our ration of common humanity, but Bush wants us to be part of his Big Push. David Kurtz on TPM quotes extensively from a Guardian report on the Bush plan. (This, apparently, has been developed in parallel with the famed Baker Iraq Study Group).

According to the Guardian, the four pillars of the strategy are

• Increase US troop levels by up to 20,000 to secure Baghdad and allow redeployments elsewhere in Iraq


• Focus on regional cooperation with international conference and/or direct diplomatic involvement of countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia


• Revive reconciliation process between Sunni, Shia and others


• Increased resources from Congress to fund training and equipment of Iraqi security forces

For more on this, see Memeorandum.com

Update (8:53 am): Dave Winer reminds us, "When you watch Baker in motion, don't think he's working for you. He's working for the Bush family, and more broadly, the Republican Party, Corporate America and the defense industry."

Mickeleh's Take: I used to work with a client who asked, at the start of every project, "How will we know if we've won?" Bush still thinks he can snatch victory from the jaws of fiasco. But he's never been able to the that question. "How will we know if we've won?"

(Tags: Bush, George W. Bush, War, Iraq, Elections, Elections 2006)