Remember the surge? Probably you thought it was the kind of a thingy you see in a tidal river, or when a dam is opened or a toilet floods. The kind that goes up and then goes down, or maybe comes in and then goes out. Actually though what Bush had in mind was more like the kind of a thing you get in a lava flow, that comes in or goes up or whatever and then like hardens and turns into this llke rock stuff.

WASHINGTON — Troop levels in Iraq would remain nearly the same through 2008 as they have been through most of the five years of war there, under plans presented to President Bush on Monday by the senior American commander and the top American diplomat in Iraq, senior administration and military officials said…

Posted by Jerome Doolittle at March 25, 2008 11:57 AM

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