Here's a grim map of the Iraq War deaths by state (U.S. military) -- 63 in Tennessee. As always, our dear leader is doing his best to make this map dated.
Bush will announce his New Way Forward War strategy on prime time tv this Wednesday. The pResident is expected to offer some semblance of a rationale for a surge or escalation of the apparently endless Iraq war.
With a massive and ever-growing opposition to the war and an escalation of the fear that Bush is not in his right mind, it is expected to be a very tense week.
The Dems appear to be ready. Ooops, update that to Democrats beating Bush to the punch.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will address the nation at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday about his new approach for the war in Iraq, the White House said. Bush is expected to announce an increase of up to 20,000 additional U.S. troops.
Bush's decisions, more than two months in the making, already are drawing criticism from new Democratic leaders in Congress who say it is time to begin ending the war, not to send in more U.S. forces.
Now in its fourth year, the war has claimed the lives of more than 3,000 members of the U.S. military and was a major factor in the Republicans' loss of Congress in the November election. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Bush in a letter last week that "we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success.''
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