What a surprise. Now the surge of only 21,000 troops - now 30,000 troops - is a permanent escalation that may last to the end of Bush's term. In other words, Bush is running out the clock, he has no intention of ever leaving Iraq, and plans on handing his disaster off to the next president. This is atrocious.
From the Wash Post:
U.S. commanders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, announced by President Bush in January, will need to last into the spring of 2008....So now the end of the summer surge is being moved back another six months to next spring. So that way the Bush administration won't have to say how things are going this fall, they can wait until a year from now when they'll tell us that we have to wait another six months before they can tell us how things are going on in Iraq.
"The surge needs to go through the beginning of next year for sure," said Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the day-to-day commander for U.S. military operations in Iraq. The new requirement of up to 15-month tours for active-duty soldiers will allow the troop increase to last until spring...
The Republicans are killing our troops in Iraq, wasting 100s of billions of dollars a year, destroying our military, putting the civil defense at home at risk in places like Kansas that face their own disasters, and they plan to continue this war indefinitely.
The Republicans want to continue this war forever. The only people talking about getting out of Iraq are the Democrats.
