Maybe Pelosi is right.  Maybe Bush sending in 21,000 more sacrificial lambs was a tactic to deter Congress from cutting off his war funds. 
Since I have not found one viable reason for the surge - not even from Bush toadies - what else could it be but what Pelosi suggests it is.

Her accusation leveled at anybody but Bush/Cheney would be hard to swallow. But for those of us who have been paying attention for the last six years, the accusation is fitting.

It’S sad to see young soldiers die for nothing. Bush and Cheney must have no heart,no soul and no conscious. How can you allow soidiers to die everyday in a situation that continually gets worse instead of better.
forget for now that the war was based on outright lies. How about it’s not working and our brave men are dying for Bush and Cheney’s ego. Congress should stop the funding not to defy Bush. but because it’s the right and moral thing to do.

it is time for those who can see through Bush’s facade to unite to beat him at his game. the only way to stop this failed rules of engagement policy is to force Bush to change the rules or face impeachment. another89

Why should we expect the Iraq Prime Minister to control the Sunnis or the Shiites in Iraq?  Poor Maliki must try to govern a genuine democracy where what the majority of voters want actually counts for something unlike Bush’s America where he can’t control Republicans, let alone Democrats, even when he has a near dictatorship going.

[more irreverence at resistence-is-possible.blogspot.com]

George Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s “surge” will most likely be ineffective and simply result in more US casualties, as many experts have predicted.

It may be important to keep in mind that any so-called “failure” in Iraq is not the fault of the troops, mostly Army and Marines. But, rather, failure lies squarely on Bush, Cheney and their neocon cronies.

Hopefully, our system of justice will provide them with appropriate consequences.

In the meantime, the role of our Army and Marines should be clearly separated from that of corrupt government officials. Along these lines of thinking, the article below may provide some useful perspectives:

Army and Marine Corps will retain strength and honor after Iraq occupation ends

By Steve Hammons
American Chronicle
December 14, 2006

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18005

Don’t worry. The more killings the more Bush/Cheney & Co. are happy and enjoyed !

“It took to 25 the number of US deaths in Iraq on Saturday - one of the worst days for US troops since the invasion.”

More than 20,000 are destined to be used as cannon fodder to prop up a failed presidency, for another two years; what value does the Bush administration place on human life,  obviously, not much unless your surname is Bush or Cheney. Everyone knows, that an additional 20,000 troops will not suppress a civil war—-we are NOT told that the real “coalition of the willing”  is the 100,000 mercenary troops who are already fighting in Iraq; so in effect, there are not just 140,000 troops but 240,000 troops that can not contain a civil strife.  Bush and his strategists know it would take an additional 500,000 troops to restrain Iraq’s insurgency, so to offer up 20,000 young men and women as mere sacrificial lambs is somewhat disgusting.

So how would the U.S “all voluntary military” muster up an addition 500,000 troops for Iraq and then another 100,000 to control the bedlam in Afghanistan which is now known as the “Taliban Heroin Haven”-—well, to wage a serious neo-con war in Iraq and in Afghanistan, Uncle Sam would need to reinstatement the draft.

Now, there are probably several reasons why these neo-cons do not want to reinstate the draft—fear of a Vietnam War civil rebellion in the streets; a lack of desire for CEO chieftains and energy warlords to sacrifice their own flesh and blood; and finally if you reinstate the draft you’re eliminating the privatization of the military, and also doing away with billions of dollars of war profiteering for services that were previous done by the enlisted—-how many no bid contracts would be terminated, well only Bush’s God would know for sure.

All for oil!  People think of that next time you get into your gas guzzler.

Its not worth it.

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