Despite all the opposition to the escalation and without a solid rationale, Bush will do it "his way"

An accurate -- and brutal analysis appears today from Reuters of George Bush's reasons for escalating the war in Iraq. He will announce his plan on Wednesday, January 9th at 9:00 PM EST.

None of Bush's rationales for the escalation have anything to do with a real policy. Nope, not with George Bush. He's doing it his way because he can -- and because people he doesn't like the people who told him not to escalate. What is most frightening about this Reuters analysis is that it is accurate. What it says about Bush is widely believed:

Leaders of the new Democratic-controlled Congress are vowing to fight it. An elite panel on Iraq has shown little enthusiasm for it. And even some military commanders are deeply skeptical about it.

Still, President George W. Bush is expected to shrug off those concerns and unveil plans to send more troops to Iraq, setting the stage for the most intense debate on the war since the U.S.-led invasion almost four years ago.

Bush is to make a televised address to Americans on his new Iraq plan on Wednesday at 9 p.m. (0200 GMT).

By going ahead with a troop increase, Bush is again proclaiming himself the "decider" as he tries to reassert his relevance after coming out on the losing end of a congressional power shift, analysts say.

Though weakened by his Republican Party's defeat in November's elections, he seems to be staking out his turf for continuing to prosecute an increasingly unpopular war that is likely to define his presidential legacy.

"He's still commander-in-chief and he wants to do it his way," said Michael McFaul, a foreign policy expert at the Hoover Institution. "But it's too little, too late."

This paragraph says a lot, too:

Aside from a few neoconservative scholars, the leading voices pushing for more troops have been Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Like Bush, both see Baghdad as the linchpin for stabilizing Iraq.

On Bush's side for escalation are: Bush McCain, Lieberman and a couple of neocons. On the other side against escalation are: the American people, military leaders, Democrats in Congress, some Republicans in Congress, the rest of the world.

How much more damage can this man do to our country?