Maybe if he spent more than three hours working, Bush would come up with something besides an escalation of his unpopular war. But, according to The New York Times, that's his plan and he's sticking with it:
The Bush administration is considering an increase in troop levels in Iraq of 17,000 to 20,000, which would be accomplished in part by delaying the departure of two Marine regiments now deployed in Anbar Province, Pentagon officials said Thursday.It's like watching a bad dream. It's his war and he'll do what he wants to -- no matter what it does to the country or what it does to the troops or what it does to the Iraqi President. Clearly, the intervention failed.
The option was among those discussed in Crawford, Tex., on Thursday as President Bush met there with his national security team, and it has emerged as a likely course as he considers a strategy shift in Iraq, the officials said.
Most of the additional troops would probably be employed in and around Baghdad, the officials said.
