Bush couldn’t have said enough good things about Casey over the past three years. And Casey, like the good little bitch he was, said and did whatever the idiot wanted him to. Now……he’s disagreed about escalating the war, and he’s due to be thrown under the next Greyhound Bus to come along.

WASHINGTON- General George Casey, the United States’ Army’s senior commander in Iraq, will most likely be forced to pay the price of President George Bush’s strategic failures in the war in Iraq.

The New York Times reported that President Bush plans to fire the general, who was supposed to complete his service this coming summer, within the next few weeks.

The report said that Bush did not like his commanders’ strategy, which aimed for retreat without victory, and Bush is taking advantage of the replacement of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld with Robert Gates in order to get rid of Rumsfeld’s senior general in Iraq as well.

Bush is expected to announce the new strategy he wishes to outline for the war in Iraq. These past few days, Bush has been convening with his advisors, and will reveal his plans at the end of these meetings.

The issue of the temporary reinforcement of the troops in Iraq hovers in the background. This suggestion, which appears to contradict the principal ambition of minimizing the number of American soldiers in Iraq, is meant to achieve stability of the security situation before doing so.

Bush recently launched an experiment on the media regarding his intention to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, at least temporarily, from 140,000 to 170,000 troops.

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