“A ‘surge’ or ‘targeted increase in U.S. troop strength’ or whatever the politicians want to call dispatching more combat troops to Iraq isn’t the answer. Adding more trainers and helping the Iraqis to help themselves, is. Sending more U.S. combat troops is simply sending more targets.”
That is a quote from none other than Oliver North. But it gets even better. Think Progress has a nice clip up, which includes this:
Yesterday on MSNBC, Trent Lott (R-MS), the second ranking Republican in the Senate, said that he may oppose troop escalation in Iraq. Watch it:
It is looking more and more like everyone is against Bush’s escalation except him, Lieberman and McCain. Looks like George still don’t give a shit about the lives of our troops – he just wants to play politics. I wonder if Anderson Cooper thinks this should be investigated, or if an investigation would be “payback”?