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Is this "new Baghdad crackdown" part of the new Baghdad security initiative, or is it an even newer plan that supersedes the old new plan Bush and Maliki announced just after the New Year?

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Is this "new Baghdad crackdown" part of the new Baghdad security initiative, or is it an even newer plan

Planning is for wussies. Let's face it, Homer Simpson is in charge:

"The only solution to a zany scheme, is an even zanier scheme!"

Posted by dj moonbat | February 13, 2007 10:53 PM

The Iraqi government on Tuesday ordered tens of thousands of Baghdad residents to leave homes they are occupying illegally... Lt. Gen. Aboud Qanbar, who is leading the new crackdown, also announced the closing of Iraq’s borders with Iran and Syria...

In related news, the US government ordered young Americans to stop smoking marijuana and also announced the closing of the border with Mexico.

Given the high hopes/low likelihood of success nature of this announcement, I would assume that these ideas came straight from the White House. Whether this was part of the original plan, or whether they bounced the idea off a Magic 8-Ball last weekend, is anyone's guess.

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | February 13, 2007 11:05 PM

Looks like the surge is already working.

Posted by Al | February 13, 2007 11:11 PM

sure, al, if by "already working" you mean "helping to lay the groundwork for a causus belli against iran."

Posted by howard | February 13, 2007 11:19 PM

We're more doctrinally agile

The Soviet Union used to have Five Year Plans. How plodding. Nowadays we have Five Day Plans, whether for weight loss, or victory in Iraq.

Posted by Glen Tomkins | February 13, 2007 11:44 PM

In related news, Al, the US-backed Shah of Iran defeated the Ayatollah Khomeni by forcing him to flee to Iraq in 1964.

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | February 13, 2007 11:48 PM

One official told ABC News' Martha Raddatz, "He is scared he will get a JDAM [bomb] dropped on his house."

What does that have to do with a surge of ground forces?

Posted by kurzleg | February 14, 2007 8:41 AM

This may be off topic, but I just have to say that, given your famous difficulty with spelling, I was very happy to see how well you handled "supersedes."

I am, by the way, a huge and daily fan of the blog, spelling quirks be damned.

Posted by David Dickerson | February 14, 2007 10:30 AM