A Surge?

After the report came back on Iraq Bush has been promising a new direction for the war. Now I've read that he is thinking of adding troops to the country. Gates, the newly elected Defense Head was just in Baghdad and telling the Generals that he wants to add more troops to help win the war. They're calling it a "surge". Of course Bush isn't going to admit that the whole thing has been a mistake and let's try to find a way to get out and bring the troops home. No, his answer is to throw more innocent lives at the conflict.

UPDATE: It's about an hour later and I just finished watching the evening news. It seems that the idea of adding more troops to Iraq is what Bush is leading with. There was an interview with his wife and the newscaster mentioned that "the President has said we are not winning in Iraq" and his wife was quick to point out that "he hasn't said we're losing either." Does Bush ever admit that he made a mistake? I don't think I have ever heard him say that maybe that was a mistake, maybe that path wasn't the right one, let's try something else. Once he picks a path he is going to stick to it no matter if it is wrong or not, no matter if everyone tells him it is wrong or not. Only he seems to know the right way to do it.

They also mentioned on the news that last year the requirment for the Army was down almost 10%, but so far this year it is up. Why? The Army lowered its requirments to be addmitted. No, I am not anti-military. I am just against what the President is using our military for at the moment. My Dad spent twenty something years in the Navy. The military can be a good career. But I don't think lowering our standards to get in is the asnswer. If we keep adding more people to the war and if Bush keeps rattling his sabres I fear what is going to happen is a draft again.

Even after the midterm elections basically showed Bush that the majority of the American public believes that war is not being handled correctly he is going to do it his way. I've said this before and I'll say it again...if this was Clinton Congress would have been working towards impeaching him a long time ago. Clinton gets impeached for a blowjob, Bush can lie to the American public about why he put us in a war and keeps us there and no one seems to care.

Isn't it time to get rid of him? I don't know if we can afford to wait for two more years.