This article from The Los Angeles Times details the "surge" in President Bush's war with Congress over funding of the Iraq war. Lost in all the rhetoric is the fact that the United States had no business invading Iraq in the first place. It was the president's pathological need to destroy something that put the troops and this country's security in danger. His constant blaming of others is also extremely pathological, a fact that many are finally beginning to see. He said the situation in Iraq "is not a civil war; it is pure evil. And I believe we have an obligation to protect ourselves from that evil." Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me.-Jake FT. IRWIN, CALIF. — Denouncing Democrats from coast to coast for trying to limit his freedom of action in Iraq, President Bush is betting — as he often has — that when it comes to national security, confrontation works better than conciliation.
"A strategy that encourages this enemy to wait us out is dangerous," Bush told troops Wednesday at this Army training post in the Mojave Desert, his latest salvo at the congressional effort to force a military withdrawal from Iraq.
He added, "It's dangerous for our troops, it's dangerous for our country's security, and it's not going to become the law."
In Washington, Republicans and Democrats expect that the president will win this battle in the short run; that after weeks or months of debate, Congress will eventually provide billions of dollars for the war in Iraq with only mild conditions attached.
"Ultimately, politically, we have to give him [the] money," Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, predicted in an interview on NBC this week.
But Bush and his opponents in Congress appear to be working on different calendars.
The president is striving to buy a few more months of time for his new military strategy — the "surge" of additional troops into Baghdad's neighborhoods — to show that progress can be made in stabilizing Iraq.
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