When the US drops a Brigade from the 82nd into Iraq, there's some major shit about to go down,

These guys make the National Guard look like Boy Scouts. This doesn't look like a "surge" too me. It looks like a full on assault is about to occur.

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42411

...the 60,000-strong Medhi Army, that is.

Crap, going after a group of 60,000 in their own country.

Wonder how well that one's going to turn out?

It's location, location, location.

And Sadr City really sucks as a location to fight in. If it was so easy to crush the place without firebombing it and probably setting the whole city on fire, Saddam would've done it himself.

Americans are fixing to lose many of sons and daughters mothers and fathers for oil

You don't send in our best to maintain peace... You send in our best to attack.

U.S. forces didn't initiate the Tet offensive, just reacted to it. Tet is sort of confusing, very unlike the Viet Cong to coordinate such a large event. Sometimes I think it was orchestrated by the NVA for the purpose of eliminating the Viet Cong who might have competed with the north for post-war dominance. If so, mission accomplished.

It Iraq, it's "us" who are building up to launch an offensive operation of some kind. Not that it will do any good. We can pound the hell out of a city, but as long as the borders are as porous as they are, the opposition will simply re-enforce and rebuild.

If there is any valid purpose to build up, it's to just cover our exodus. Extract ourselves as quickly as possible with minimum loss of life.

To cover our escape.

If I am reading Larry Johnson correctly, then Bush really wants to go after Iran. However, he can't do that while Iraq is so unstable. So, Bush is using this 'surge' idea to go after what he considers the biggest group that is destabilizing Baghdad and drawing in support all over Iraq: Moqtada al Sadr.

This is a massive mistake, as Johnson writes both in this diary at DKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/18/112647/99
and in a post from a solider stationed in Iraq that is on Johnson's blog at:
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/12/more_from_iraq.html

Bush is, as Sen. Kerry said in his WaPo editorial on Sunday, insane. This will only further inflame the Iraqis and could have devastating results. The Shia could ban together and shut off the supply lines for the US troops currently in country. Then we have tens of thousands of American hostages in Iraq, and we will be unable to get them food, fuel, supplies, reinforcements, etc. This is a catastrophe in waiting.

Unless we are about to start lining up Iraqis in the street and shooting them by the hundreds and thousands, escalating the war is not likely to do anything other than result in a prolonged and bloodier defeat. The Iraqis aren't going anywhere, we are.

It's the anticipation of violence when Saddam is executed.