Ted Rall for January 13, 2007
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Great moments in Iraqi history. The buddy system. Despite the great troop surge of '07, Iraq remained in turmoil. We keep sending in heavily armed 19-year-olds. Yet the violence is increasing. Baffling. Instead of letting the terrorists win, the US decided to give the war another chance to bring peace to Iraq. We will send 26,783,383 US soldiers to Iraq. Each one will keep watch over one Iraqi. My brother's keeper. It went well at first. The Iraqis didn't dare try anything while being monitored by their new roommates. Where are you going? To the can. I'm coming too. After 16 hours or so, however, all hell broke loose. He's asleep! It's on! Next: the buddy system doubled! We will send 53, 566, 766 troops: one on day shift and one for nights!