http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=8986January 15th, 2007 3:32 pm
Bush becoming isolated more than ever on Iraq
Support dries up as president looks to escalate military presence abroad
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush once said he was determined to stick with the Iraq war even if his wife and his dog were the only ones left at his side.
It’s moving in that direction.
People in the United States already were angry about the war before Bush said he would try to bring unrelentingly violent Iraq back from the brink by adding 21,500 more U.S. troops to the 132,000 there now.
Polls show the U.S. public overwhelmingly does not like the idea. Democrats always in opposition were joined very publicly by some Republicans in dissent. Even Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had to be persuaded to go along with a larger U.S. presence in Baghdad.
“He is as isolated as a president can be,” said Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Boston University.
Lawmakers did authorize the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Today, however, the Democratic-controlled Congress is poised to produce votes against a policy that, although nonbinding, will reverberate into the 2008 elections.
‘Dangerous foreign policy blunder’
And Bush’s problem with Washington’s politicians is not only the product of the new partisan divide.
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