Pelosi: Discussing Sending More Troops to Baghdad is Fresh Evidence that Bush's Policy Is a Failure

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10/31/2006 2:38:00 PM

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75404

Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on news reports that National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley is in Iraq to discuss sending more troops to Baghdad:

"Dispatching National Security Advisor Hadley to Iraq to discuss sending more troops to Baghdad is fresh evidence that President Bush's 'stay the course' policy is a failure. Despite increasing U.S. troop strength to about 145,000 in response to heightened levels of violence in Iraq, we have lost 103 of our finest men and women in October alone.

"With militia influence over the Iraqi police apparently increasing, and the Iraqi government apparently having conceded parts of Baghdad to the control of sectarian militias, we should not commit even more American troops to a fight the Iraqis seem increasingly unwilling to make themselves. Our brave men and women in uniform deserve a plan for success that is worthy of their sacrifice, not more of the same from President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld. It is time for a new direction in Iraq."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75404


Associated Press
October 31, 2006

Escalation in Iraq: 3,000 More Soldiers Sent To Fight And Die For Bush's Occupation

"The Pentagon said Tuesday that there are now 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, up from 147,000 last week."

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/51397.html


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[jean]

1. "fresh evidence" from the bush administration ... made me think of

fresh droppings/dung ... so we can track his trail.

[EconomicsProfessor]

2. More troops - or - Less troops

Mr. Murtha and others are for pulling troops out of Iraq and redeploy them to Okinawa where the Japanese have already asked our troops to leave since they have been there since 1945.

Others are for putting more troops into Iraq.



""I'm confused."

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Got a link for the Okinawa deployment?

First I heard of that. :shrug:

[bigtree]

4. Bush wants them to stay in the middle of the Iraqi's civil war

fighting and dying for the ones taking shots at them

no one's going to shoot at them in Okinawa