Where would we be without a mainstream media that eagerly leaks every national security secret and war plan? Secret Pentagon study narrows down Iraq.

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon review of Iraq has come up with three options — injecting more troops into Iraq, shrinking the force but staying longer or pulling out, The Washington Post reported Monday.

The newspaper quoted senior defense officials as dubbing the three alternatives “Go big, go long and go home.”

Scrappleface’s parody is uncomfortably close to reality: Secret U.S. Iraq Plan: Go Public, Go Home, Go Mecca.

(2006-11-20) — According to a newly pre-released secret Pentagon document, the U.S. military is considering three options for dealing with the situation in Iraq, dubbed ‘Go Public, Go Home and Go Mecca.’

The unnamed Pentagon official in charge of leaking national security secrets to the Washington Post said it’s possible that the U.S. could adopt some combination of the three.

He summarized the strategy options as follows:

1. Go Public: Consistently leak top-secret Pentagon strategy deliberations to the news media as a way of neutralizing the unfair “element of surprise”, and of building trust by being more transparent with the enemy.

2. Go Home: Remove the only reason for terrorism by bringing all U.S. troops back home, and also allowing all U.S.-trained Iraqi troops to emigrate to the U.S.

3. Go Mecca: Deal “head on” with the heart of the conflict, by amending the U.S. Constitution to bring it into compliance with Islamic Sharia law.

UPDATE at 11/20/06 10:11:21 am:

Al-Reuters, oddly enough, switches the order and puts “Go Home” first: Pentagon panels sees three options in Iraq: report.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pentagon panel has outlined three basic options for improving the situation in Iraq — pull out, send more U.S. troops or reduce the size of the force but stay longer, The Washington Post reported on Monday. …

The options have been dubbed “Go Home,” “Go Big” and “Go Longer” by insiders.