Bush Works to Sell Troop Buildup Plan

So let me get this straight, in order to try to decrease US troop casualties in Iraq, you're sending more over there? That seems to me like the same strategy as giving teachers firearms to keep guns out of schools.

The Bush administration worked Thursday to persuade a skeptical Congress and American public to accept President Bush's troop buildup plan as the last best chance for reversing Iraq's slide.

"Please, please. please believe me!"

"We cannot afford to fail," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

No, the troops can't afford you to fail.
Bush's new strategy increases U.S. forces in Iraq by 21,500 and demands greater cooperation from the Iraqi government.

Yeah that'll work. The only thing you can expect from Iraq is chaos, pure and simple. Here's what you do, start pulling troops out. Show the Iraqi government that they better get their shit together because we ain't babysitting forever.