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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (80390)	5/22/2007 3:08:01 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

It can take quite a long time to root out "the last remnants of a dying cause". Yeah, right. Too bad we pulled out of Vietnam after "only" 58,000 of our soldiers had been killed!

To: TimF who wrote (80390)	5/22/2007 3:39:08 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Yeah, it can take a long, long time. What's one or two years when we are talking about another 10 or 20, 30, 40 years, huh?! Military took a year to fill ‘urgent’ equipment request. The Marine Corps “waited over a year before acting on an ‘priority 1 urgent’ request to send blast-resistant vehicles to Iraq.” As Danger Room notes, “the request for over 1,000 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles came in February, 2005. A formal call to fulfill that order did not emerge until November, 2006.” Approximately 1,373 U.S. soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in Iraq.

To: TimF who wrote (80390)	5/22/2007 3:44:40 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

What do you do when you escalate a war and fail miserably? That's right. Escalate it further! Second Iraq ‘surge’ quieter No televised announcement, but more troops deploy just the same STEWART M. POWELL; Hearst Newspapers Published: May 22nd, 2007 01:00 AM WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. When additional support troops are included in this second troop “surge,” the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 – a record high number – by the end of the year.