Bush's Escalation In Iraq (So Far)

Earlier this year, Bush decided that he was wrong after all in not sending enough troops to Iraq, but he figured this out too late for it to make a difference. Maybe in four years time, he will figure out that he was too late and that he should have pulled our troops out of the quagmire he created through his incompetence instead of making things worse. He won't be in office by then, so it will be too late for another one of his four-years-behind-everyone-else revelations to make a difference.

If or when Bush does come to that realization, he will be living, as always, in the lap of luxury. Unfortunately, that realization is already too late for nine more US soldiers who won't be living in the lap of luxury in four years like Bush. Today, they aren't living at all:

9 U.S. Soldiers Killed North of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Nine American soldiers died in explosions north of Baghdad, the U.S. military announced Tuesday after the deadliest single day for U.S. troops in Iraq in nearly a month.

Six soldiers died when a bomb exploded Monday near their vehicles during a combat operation in Salahuddin province, the military said. Three others were wounded in the blast.

Another three soldiers died the same day in a roadside bomb attack in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.

Two suicide bombers exploded themselves in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, police said.

When I think about how the 3185 US military deaths in Iraq, I think about how these people were willing to give their lives for their country, and Bush chose to sacrifice these people for his lies. Then there are the hundreds of coalition military deaths, mostly British, who died for Bush's lies, and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who are dead because of Bush's lies. Now they are dead, and Bush is living a wealthy and carefree life. They paid the ultimate price for Bush's lies, and Bush bears none of the burden. It is so sickening.

Now, Bush, through his incompetence and lack of planning, has decided to risk even more US military lives with his escalation in Iraq. Well, the escalation has begun and nothing has changed. Iraq is no more stable than it was before the escalation, and, if the past four years of the war in Iraq is any indication, that is not going to change any time soon. So what will Bush do if the "surge" (as he calls it) does not work? Again, if the past four years is any indication, he does not have a backup plan.

Now any other president would know the importance of having a Plan B, but not the hopeless idealogue in the White House today:

There Is No Plan B

As the bad news coming out of Iraq continues, we now learn that:

During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work?

The conclusion they took away, the governors later said, was that there is no Plan B. "I'm a Marine," Pace told them, "and Marines don't talk about failure. They talk about victory."

Pace had a simple way of summarizing the administration's position..."Plan B was to make Plan A work."

Meanwhile things are still bad in the war in Afghanistan, the war that Bush and his ilk forgot about, and now this happens:

Coalition Airstrike Kills Afghan Family

JABAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on a U.S. base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday - one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.

It was the third report in two days of U.S. forces killing civilians. The airstrike took place late Sunday in Kapisa province north of the capital, some 12 hours after U.S. Marines opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians following a suicide bombing in eastern Nangahar province.

Bush's war in Iraq has led to the deaths of more Americans than 9/11 which Iraq never even had anything to do with despite Bush's lies. The consequences of the Iraq invasion such as the insurgency and civil war has led to hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths which is one of the crimes for which we went after Saddam Hussein. Bush's attempt to protect Iraqi lives has had the opposite effect, their deaths, and if Bush had instead finished the job in Afghanistan, then maybe he could have prevented the death of this family and other innocent civilians in Afghanistan.

Bush is lucky that he was born into weath, because he fails at everything he tries (except elections apparently). Such a man should never have become, nor should he be now, the President of the United States.