Defiant as ever, our prez is gonna do the insane escalation thing

according to the bbc...

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths among civilians are at record highs.

The US president arrived back in Washington on Monday after a week-long holiday at his ranch in Texas.

The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush's Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week.

Its central theme will be sacrifice.

The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers.

i can't imagine anyone being against finding a way for the iraqis to stop killing each other, but the fact remains, it was us who mangled the job so badly in the first place that this could be happening, not to mention we shouldn't have ever been there in the first place... there are so many ways for bush to handle this, innovative ways, imaginative ways, conciliatory ways, that "more of the same" looks just like what it is - pure insanity...

The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion, according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security rather than training Iraqi forces.

The proposal, if it comes, will be highly controversial.

so, let's increase troop strength without a mission and without any indication that it will be successful... i truly hope that the roof blows off of this certifiably pathological proposal before one single additional soldier sets foot on an airplane bound for iraq...

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