You wait when we say you wait

As we listen to the pleas of "give the surge a chance to work," can we take a moment to remember that the "change in strategy" that later became the surge was originally put off for many, many months last year because the Bush administration wanted to wait until after the midterm elections?

Can we remember that the Bush administration didn't even allow planning on a "course change" to begin until after that election?

Soldiers were dying through last year's bloody summer and autumn in a strategy that was recognized to have failed, and yet planning was not allowed to be considered because it would have "politicized" the process.

I just wish someone would remember.