Do I hear ten? Twenty? Forty?
It appears that the Bush administration's as-yet-proposed "surge" of troops into Iraq is likely to grow into a tsunami:
Bush could send up to 40,000 more US troops to Iraq (Yahoo! AP):As we approach the fourth anniversary of Bush's decision to wage a war against Iraq, we should keep in mind how all his underlings and his backers told the more skeptical among us that this would be a short, easy campaign, that we would be greeted as liberators, and that the war would not cost us much at all -- in fact, they told us to expect Iraq's oil revenues to cover the tab.
President George W. Bush could send up to 40,000 more US troops to Iraq when he unveils his revised Iraq policy, US media said as it cautioned that a final figure has not been determined.
Various news reports agree there will be an increase of US forces in Iraq, giving estimates of between 9,000 and 40,000 extra troops.
The move could be controversial as the Iraq war is increasingly unpopular with the US public amid a mounting death toll that now stands at around 3,000 US troops.
It is also likely to be opposed by the US Congress, now in the hands of opposition Democrats.
The reports however caution that the numbers may vary, and that no final decision has been made.
There are currently 132,000 US troops in Iraq as well as 17,000 members of the US-led coalition from 25 other countries, the Pentagon said Thursday.
CNN television said Bush is looking at sending 20,000-40,000 additional troops and that the announcement could come early next week.
A "targeted increase in troop strength" is "an active subject of discussion," an unnamed senior administration official told CNN, adding that Bush was "significantly along in the process."
Of course, that was nearly four years, three thousand US deaths, tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, and hundreds of billions of dollars ago.
Let's face facts: This president's administration is a tragic comedy, only it's quite heavy on the tragic and feather light on the comedy.
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