White House: We will send more troops in Iraq, nevermind congress.

Well....I guess that's it....The people and their new congress can all go Cheney themselves. Elections only have consequences when the Bushites win them, apparently

Bush and Cheney are prepared to risk the lives of another 5,000 or so troops (Divide the number of troops sent by 4 to get actual number of combat troops.) to raise the number of troops to a level significantly lower than there were for the "purple-finger elections."

Why?

Sorry, I just can't make any sense of this.

Everyone knows that Iraq is a lost cause, even by the measure of the administration's own stated evolving or devolving goals. 5, 000 more individuals to use as cannon fodder will make no difference in the outcome in Iraq.

How can anyone believe that this latest troop increase can help, anymore than the other 2 or 3 increases did, in stopping the violence and providing the population with, at least, the standard of living they were used to under Saddam? How can anyone who believes that 5,000 more troops won't make a difference in anything other than the casualty count, both military and civilian, and the amount of time it takes for the whole house of cards to collapse, stand for this?

Bush and Cheney are not gambling with little plastic chips in Vegas!

Hell they aren't even gambling with their own money or blood.

They are gambling with the lives of our young people, and they are throwing good money after bad, as the old saying goes, into a country and a government, the people of which, largely, no longer trust anything our government does, if they ever did, and who can blame them.

Our military and our corporations, and not much else, have been in Iraq for close to 4 years and life in Iraq is worse than it has been in modern history. No way in hell, can we be considered liberators or bringers of freedom and Democracy. The very idea would be laughable, if so many had not paid such a high price for a lie.

I hate to think what would happen if Americans had to live in conditions half as bad as what we know is daily life for Iraqis. (Of course, much more of Bush and Cheney, and we will find out what will happen, because we are headed for a serious collapse or partial collapse, in our economy as well as our social and governmental institutions.)

What's worse? Just as I suspected many moons ago, the administration and their NeoCon puppeteers are headed for confrontation with Iran as sure as we breathe.

Cheney is throwing down a mighty gauntlet and all of us, especially our elected representatives, who do not choose to pick it up and cram it down his throat, because of political strategy and caution or cowardice, deserve whatever we get.

It won't be pretty or fun. No, not in the least.

White House: We will send more troops in Iraq - CNN.com:

Story Highlights:

• President Bush: 'I've made my decision. And we're going forward'
• Vice President Cheney says congressional critics won't influence troop plans
• Cheney says Democratic critics don't have coherent alternative to Bush strategy
• Cheney says giving up fight in Iraq would send wrong message to enemies

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wants.


'I fully understand they could try to stop me from doing it. But I've made my decision. And we're going forward,' Bush told CBS' '60 Minutes' in an interview to air Sunday night.

Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that lawmakers' criticism will not influence Bush's plans and he dismissed any effort to 'run a war by committee.'

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The president is the commander in chief. He's the one who has to make these tough decisions,' Cheney said.