President Bush Speech to Escalate Iraq War

Last evening, as did a huge number of other people, I watched as George W. Bush made the case to add approximately 22,000 more American soldiers in Iraq. The speech came sometime after the evening news, where the top story (in the Twin Cities) had been about yet another Minnesota soldier who had just died in Iraq.


When the President came on and laid out “his plan,” I began to wonder why he thought he could go against what seems to be a huge majority of U.S. citizens, who want to bring American troops home and get our military out of Iraq? In a “democratic” country, shouldn’t the people have the last word? Does this make our President a president, or a dictator? Does this mean that our leader is no better than the one who was overthrown in Iraq? These are all questions that flew through my mind, as I also wondered if the President had heard of another military conflict called, The Vietnam War.


Have you ever known someone who tried to fix something, and the more they tried, the more it got screwed up? Iraq will have a civil war. Do we really want American troops living in tiny bases in the middle of it? When is enough, enough?
Do you remember when George W. Bush told us about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Do you remember when he stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (aircraft carrier) and told us, “mission accomplished?” Should we believe him now?