Defeating Bush’s Troop Surge for Iraq
by James Buchanan
Despite an overwhelming defeat of the neocons in the 2006 election, George Bush has apparently decided to ignore the will of the American people and INCREASE the number of troops in Iraq. Will Bush back off this lunatic new idea? Will the Democrats have the backbone to start bringing our troops home?
After a long delay, opposition to the troop surge is finally building. One news article reports “Days from announcing an overhaul of (his) Iraq strategy, President Bush on Friday encountered a wall of criticism of the U.S. troop escalation that is expected to be the centerpiece of his new war plan… ‘We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq,’ new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wrote in a letter to Bush a day after their party took the reins on Capitol Hill. Instead, Pelosi and Reid urged Bush to begin pulling troops out in four to six months. The criticism underscored that Bush, preparing his new policy for an increasingly unpopular and costly war, will face a Congress that is not only controlled by Democrats who could challenge him at any turn but also populated with Republicans looking toward the congressional and presidential elections of 2008.” (more…)