Admitting strategy error, Bush adds Iraq troops
He says 21,500 new troops will help quell violence
WASHINGTON - Defying public opinion polls and newly empowered Democratic lawmakers, President Bush told Americans Wednesday that he is dispatching 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq. And in a rare admission, he said he made a mistake by not deploying more forces sooner.
“The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people, and it is unacceptable to me,” Bush said in a televised address from the White House. “Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.”
With American patience running thin over his handling of the war, Bush said he would put greater pressure on Iraqis to restore order in Baghdad and used blunt language to warn Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that “America’s commitment is not open-ended.”
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Bush still doesn't get it. Sending more troops to die isn't going solve the Iraq problem. Furthermore, he should be prosecuted for not having a war strategy and war crimes on the Iraqi people.
Meanhwile, a new Democratic Congress just passed a new higher minimum wage, something the Republican Congress didn't even think about.
