Ok, so we're looking at sending in 21,500 more troops because our king wants it that way. Meanwhile, the roughly 16,000 troops from allied nations will likely dwindle by at least half and probably as much as two-thirds by the end of 2007 leaving southern Iraq open to trouble from Muqtada Al-Sadr.

Polls show that as many as two-thirds of Americans are against sending in more troops, Congress is limited to choosing between symbolic gestures of opposition (resolutions against troop increase) and political suicide (cutting war funding), and nobody's anywhere close to sure that 21,500 troops will mean anything beyond the creation of more American targets in Iraq.

Yeah. Makes perfect sense.