So this is where we are:
The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/... is reporting that President Bush is leaning toward increasing troop levels in Iraq by 20,000!
A move that only 12 percent of Americans support!
http://www.latimes.com/...
Is it just me, or is this freaking crazy?
It is time for an intervention. Someone call the A&E Network PLEASE!
We have a president who talks to dead people:
WASHINGTON--Noted Bush observation: At his news conference last week, President Bush said, ``I talk to families who die.''
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
It looks more and more certain that a near-term escalation is coming.
And once those troops are deployed, and things don't work out. Well, gee, we can't just cut and run!
The criminal incompetence of this administration in the Iraq debacle is about to get worse.
Time to say, NO FUCKING WAY.
From the NY Times:
Military planners and White House budget analysts have been asked to provide President Bush with options for increasing American forces in Iraq by 20,000 or more. The request indicates that the option of a major "surge" in troop strength is gaining ground as part of a White House strategy review, senior administration officials said Friday.
From the LA Times:
A majority of Americans favor setting a fixed timetable for bringing troops home from Iraq, and just 12% would support a plan to increase troop strength, an option under serious consideration by the military, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
The disconnect is rather startling.
It looks like Bush actually wants to double down, but the American people are ready to fold.
The foreign policy debacle Bush has dragged us into, it appears, is about to deepen.
NY Times:
Critics of a surge approach have argued that any American troop increase would lead to more American casualties and merely put off the day when the Iraqis need to assume responsibility for their own security.
Those critics include 88 percent of the AMERICAN PEOPLE!
I can't think of a military adventure the U.S. has been involved in that has been less popular, INCLUDING Vietnam.
Of course the chance of "success" in the double down strategy is slim at best.
Bush is acting like a compulsive gambler, hocking the country's fortune to somehow pull a winning hand.
What I find amazing is that more Republicans are not standing up to this unfolding disaster.
And McCain must be shitting bricks. The last thing he wanted was for Bush to actually increase troops.
Now he will have to up the ante again, to keep on his told-ya-so tightrope.
And get this, from the NY Times piece:
On Friday, however, one administration official said that additional work was needed to fit a troop increase into the larger strategy, as well as on technical aspects about how the operation would be carried out. "There has not been a full articulation of what we would want the surge to accomplish," he said.
Is this a Three Stooges skit? Well, we don't know what the extra 20,000 troops will be doing, but we are planning to send them.