Bush Has No Intention Of Listening To Congress, Reason, or the American Public
illustration: Tim Jessell
The San Franciso Chronicle is reporting that the Bush may be planning a new “surge” that would nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq by Christmas. Nevermind the fact that he is defying the will of Congress, the American people, the Iraq Study Group, and the advice of many of the generals on the ground. From SF Chronicle:
The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday.
The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat brigades and extending tours of duty for troops already there.
The actions could boost the number of combat soldiers from 52,500 in early January to as many as 98,000 by the end of this year if the Pentagon overlaps arriving and departing combat brigades.
Separately, when additional support troops are included in this second troop increase, the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 — a record-high number — by the end of the year.
The numbers were arrived at by an analysis of deployment orders by Hearst Newspapers.
“It doesn’t surprise me that they’re not talking about it,” said retired Army Maj. Gen. William Nash, a former U.S. commander of NATO troops in Bosnia, referring to the Bush administration. “I think they would be very happy not to have any more attention paid to this.”
We need to wake up & use our American right to protest and enforce our will in government which is to bring our throops home and end this war for oil.
Wake up people! Let’s use our American to protest and organize against the government’s war for oil and profit at the expense of American soldiers.