U.S. Troops Caught In The Middle

George W. Bush said:

Listen, I understand Republicans and Democrats in Washington have differences over the best course in Iraq. That's healthy. That's normal. And we should debate those differences. But our troops should not be caught in the middle.

   As pointed out at the Daily Kos, he should be as concerned about our troops being caught in the middle of the civil war in Iraq.

-- Over the past six months, American troops have died in Iraq at the highest rate since the war began, an indication that the conflict is becoming increasingly dangerous for U.S. forces even after more than four years of fighting.

From October 2006 through last month, 532 American soldiers were killed, the most during any six-month period of the war. March also marked the first time that the U.S. military suffered four straight months of 80 or more fatalities. April, with 58 service members killed through Monday, is on pace to be one of the deadliest months of the conflict for American forces.

Senior American military officials attribute much of the increase to the Baghdad security crackdown, now in its third month. But the rate of fatalities was increasing even before...

    But hey, things are showing improvement because Vice Resident Cheney says so!

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Bush Speaks, Democrats Speak Back On War Funds Bill

    Resident Bush: "Listen, I understand Republicans and Democrats in Washington have differences over the best course in Iraq," Bush said. "That's healthy. That's normal, and we should debate those differences. But our troops should not be caught in the middle."

   This was that Bush clown speaking his usual bullshit only this time his photo-op included mothers and fathers and husbands and wives and the children of troops who have died in Iraq.

   Majority Leader Harry Reid had something to say about the Bush comments, of course.

   Harry Reid : "The president has a choice to make in the coming days: Cling to the discredited policies that have led our troops further into an intractable civil war, or work with a bipartisan majority of Congress to make us more secure."

"We're committed to pressing these goals to the administration until they do change course."

      Vice Resident Cheney said that he thinks the Democrats will cave into Bush's demands and will send him a clean bill, but Harry Reid had other ideas on that one also.

"The president is not going to get a bill that has nothing on it," Reid said. "It would be wrong for this legislative branch of government to capitulate to this wrong-headed policy that the vice president and the president have been leading."

  Bush also that he spoke with  P.M. Nouri al-Maliki who he said asked him to thank the military families and that Iraq would continue to work hard in the war on terror.      Source

   Yeah right! I hadn't been aware that the Bush Iraqi resident puppet and his group were fighting the war on terror. you most certainly can't tell that when you look at the number of deaths from U.S. troops and the Iraqis especially.

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