Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars

[QMPMom]

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Bush seeks 8,200 more troops for wars
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 59 minutes ago

President Bush asked Congress on Saturday for $3.2 billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he announced in January.

Bush wants Congress to fund 3,500 new U.S. troops to expand training of local police and army units in Afghanistan. The money also would pay for the estimated 3,500 existing U.S. troops he already announced would be staying longer in the region to counter an anticipated Taliban offensive in Afghanistan this spring.

In Iraq, most of the additional troops would help with the latest Baghdad security plan, which is getting under way in the capital. The money would pay for 2,400 combat support troops, 2,200 military police forces and 129 troops for reconstruction teams.

More at link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070311/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_i...

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Maybe the Freepers will run down and sign up.

Or have their mommies run them down.

"129 troops for reconstruction teams" to ride shotgun for Halliburton?

[mmonk]

2. This will continue until congress decides

that endless war is not good policy and listens to those who elected them.

[MatrixEscape]

3. Everyone is supposed to look at Bush!

He is the clown-like, titular head. He is exactly what he was intended to be and what he is doing proves to work perfectly and precisely for the larger agenda at hand. Our mistake has been to buy into little Bush as anything more than a most perfect and divisional figure head who mouthes the words that are implanted in his delusional, power-hungry, simian mind. If a Father ever pulled one over on his rather stupid, incompetent, uncultured, son's rebellion, than Bush Sr. takes the ultimate prize at making a mole-hill into a productive mountain. And we have bought into that game, each and every one of us, from the common, uneducated person, to a large part, (but not all) of the brightest intellectuals and thinkers.

GWB is merely a stage show. He may or may not know that. It does not matter. You can go on and on railing against what you THINK he is doing, enacting, changing, and ruining, but you are certainly being mislead and that works because your gut instincts bring our emotions, (as planned an righfully so) towards a figure head. That, of course, keeps you so enthralled, (as it did me) that you are more likely not to focus your thoughts, inquiries, and true rage and rebellion towards the systematic cabal that is larger than Bush and his Administration, calling the shots, and hiding behind the glaring facade that is presented to us in all its ridiculous and incredulous infamy.

Bush is supposed to be what he is and what you see. The problem is that we fall for it and respond to it in ways that only serve to divert our attention in a very well thought-out and programmed way. We are falling victim to our own lack of self-knowledge about our own reactions and behaviors while the money and research that delves into our proclivities laughs in glee and also prospers and conquers us from our own penchant for the bliss of ignorance.

I don't like Bush, who he is, what he has done, what he pretends to stand for, or the people around him, but he is not going to be the scapegoat for my own ignorance and misguided faith, and false hopes based on lies I have been told since my childhood. He is not that important or great or even impressive for me, (or you) to fall for the part he has been chosen to play in a game that has rules you have to seek out diligently and carefully to understand before you can play it with any skill or certainty of your odds of winning, drawing, or even breaking even.

[izzie]

4. Time to pull this plug. I am not shocked.

Fact is I am sure we will see more nutty stuff these last few years. Bush and his like never see them self as wrong. When you see God as putting you in power one has feeling your right about every thing. Add to that the feeling that you are the ruling class and it is hard to get to these people if you ever can. It is a strange way for God to act is their is one. Killing other people, I really do not think is on Gods mind. Even if they do not think like us. Bush makes me think so much of reading history and the last rulers of Germany, Russia, and Hapsburg Empire from about 1850 to WW1. They all were of the same type mind and all rode their Empires right down to ash. Always being right. The Brits had already moved on to the people should rule and were by passing their rulers by birth. Even Victoria and Edward knew this.

[TerdlowSmedley]

5. Hey, why the hell weren't there any recruitment offices represented

at that big A-hole convention (CPAC) last week? Gives one pause, don't it?