(close)Sources linking to this item (45):

• The Blue State: ... America's military is stretched to almost a breaking point -- an opinion shared by Colin Powell -- President Bush has decided to expand the size of the U.S. military, as reported in an exclusive interview with the Washington Post: "I'm inclined to believe that we do need to increase our troops -- the Army, the Marines," Bush said in the Oval ...
• Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid: ... Not The Size Leave it to a car wreck of a President like George Bush to look at the current world situation and decide that it isn't his poorly thought out and executed policies that are at fault, but that the real source of it all is the military not being big enough . Look, if the U.S. military wasn't busy babysitting Iraq and trying to build a brand new nation that was never there while getting killed - there would be no military stretched thin. In fact, we'd be ahead in the global fight against terror ...
• The Huffington Post: ... AP Bush: “We Do Need To Increase Our Troops”… QUICK ...
• Hullabaloo: ... Period. And it isn't going to happen because 70% of the country have wised up to the fact that this pony hunt is making the country less safe and it's costing us our future. According to the WaPo this afternoon: In an interview with The Washington Post, Bush said he has instructed newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to report back to him with a plan to increase ground forces. The president gave no estimates about how ...
• The Left Coaster: ... House Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton (D) Both the Post and ABC News are reporting at this hour that Bush will deflect the “surge” problem he faces in Iraq by shifting the subject to growing the size of the military to combat terrorism . Fine. Here are several questions for the Decider: 1. Before we add troops to the active forces to fight terrorism, how many troops will you redeploy from police duty inside Iraq’s civil war? 2. Which tax cuts for the wealthy ...
• Adventus: ... its not all about the denari, ya know. left rev. What does this mean? President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
• RealClearPolitics: ... House Bush to Expand Size of Military ...
• Bark Bark Woof Woof: ... it seems like we've stretched our military to the breaking point by invading one little country that greeted us as liberators. From the Washington Post :President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have ...
• Hoffmania! | All That's Left! Liberal News & Free Speech: ... Okay. Put Jenna and Barbara At The Front Of The Line Otherwise, shut your goddamned steakhole and end this thing . Stop trying to pile more bodies on to your massive failure. President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to ...
• Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: ... 20, 2006 -- 12:26 AM EST // link) In a front page story in Wednesday's Post, President Bush makes major news by moving from a completely delusional to a semi-delusional stance on the progress of the War in Iraq. Says Bush, In Iraq, "we're not winning, we're not losing." Bush ...
• First Draft: ... the other hand he said we're not losing... "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. The assessment was a striking reversal for a president who, days before the November elections, declared, "Absolutely, we're winning." Bush also disclosed he has ordered DoD Secretary Gates to "develop a plan to increase the troop ...
• Media Needle: ... George Bush We may need to bring back the draft. posted by Morse at 6:03 ...
• War and Piece: ... sad to read. ... " Posted by Laura at 05:28 PM WP : Bush to expand size of military. Posted by Laura at 05:20 ...
• Liberty Street: ... global war on terror Today's WaPo has an article titled " Bush to Expand Size of Military ": President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
• Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines: ... Bush has instructed Defense Secretary Robert Gates to provide a plan for increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps. A major increase would take years to achieve and would not alleviate problems associated with the White House’s plan to “surge” troop levels in ...
• Bush Watch Home: ... Washington Post's Eugene Robinson wrote, "The modest increase now on the table would be purposeless and wrong. What could be more immoral than sacrificing American blood and treasure to save face in a lost war?" Bush to Expand Size of Military , Peter Baker "President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and ...
• Prometheus 6 | All respect and no restraint: ... by Prometheus 6 on December 19, 2006 - 8:36pm. on War That's the only way this works. Bush to Expand Size of Military By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 19, 2006; 4:18 PM President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against ...
• Bush Watch Home: ... Washington Post's Eugene Robinson wrote, "The modest increase now on the table would be purposeless and wrong. What could be more immoral than sacrificing American blood and treasure to save face in a lost war?" Bush to Expand Size of Military , Peter Baker "President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military to meet the challenges of a long-term global war against terrorists, a response to warnings that sustained deployments in Iraq and ...
• The Reaction -- by Michael J.W. Stickings: ... Michael J.W. Stickings Sure, Mr. President. That's the latest spin , I understand, and it beats the "we're winning" nonsense that you spewed before the midterms, but only your most delusional supporters believe you now. I think I'll take ...
• The Moderate Voice - -: ... Michael van der Galien The WaPo reports that U.S. President George W. Bush plans to expand the size of the army. Why, one might ask. Well, Bush II has - for the first time - said that the U.S. is not winning in Iraq. He believes that the U.S. military should be bigger to cope with the ...
• The Democratic Daily: ... substantial military expansion will take years and would not immediately affect the war in Iraq.” And Baker also pointed out that “Democrats have been calling for additional troops for years.” Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) proposed an increase of 40,000 troops during his 2004 campaign against Bush, only to be dismissed by the administration. As recently as June, the Bush administration opposed adding more troops because restructuring “is enabling our military ...
• Article 19: ... December 20, 2006 Now He Tells Us Bush on Iraq: " We're not winning ." I wonder if he'll ever see that the problem is not that we're losing in Iraq. The problem is that he persists in viewing this complex chaotic situation in terms of America winning or losing, ...
• The Raw Story | A rational voice - Alternative news: ... Department 'reviewing own role' in NSA wiretaps President to seek larger US military ...
• Brains and Eggs: ... field at each of those locations)-- worked hard, but the blue wave was turned back by the Texas red levee again. Perhaps some of these conservatives can be dispatched to New Orleans to help with flood control. That is, if they don't choose to help serve their President in Iraq . -- Judith Regan, the book publisher who green-lighted OJ Simpson's "If I Did It", was fired by HarperCollins over the weekend. You may recall her ...
• Salon.com - Daou Report: ... The Crawford Kid - A larger more effective force President Bush announced new plans for a larger and more effective military.... I was “boots on the ground” during the last reshaping and refitting of the military during the Reagan years - which was necessary because of the decimation of the Carter years. Consequently, ...
• The Mahablog: ... picture stuff — maha @ 11:00 am This morning I read the first paragraph of Washington Post : President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the “stressed” U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges ...
• Shakespeare's Sister: ... posted by Shakespeare's Sister | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 | permalink | You and what army? Bush said he has ordered Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to develop a plan to increase the troop strength of the Army and Marine Corps, heeding warnings from the Pentagon and Capitol Hill that multiple deployments in Iraq ...
• My Left Wing :: A Liberal Translation: ... ePluribus. Also at Kos. It appears the Great Decider has decided to go big and long. As Peter Baker of the Washington Post reports, Mr. Bush is considering a troop surge in Iraq, and to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps by as many as 70,000 troops. The Army says every additional 10,000 troops will cost roughly $1.2 billion per year. Since ...
• Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: ... Quote of the Day "We're not winning, we're not losing." -- President Bush, quoted by the Washington Post , on the situation in Iraq. In early November, Bush declared "Absolutely, we're ...
• ePluribus Media Community || Collaborative Media for the Masses: ... Left Wing. Also at Kos. It appears the Great Decider has decided to go big and long. As Peter Baker of the Washington Post reports, Mr. Bush is considering a troop surge in Iraq, and to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps by as many as 70,000 troops. The Army says every additional 10,000 troops will cost roughly $1.2 billion per year. Since ...
• Tennessee Guerilla Women: ... results. According to the Commander-in-the-Bubble, when the American people voted for the Democrats, they were telling Bush to spend more money, send more troops, do whatever it takes to achieve victory or win the War on Iraq! But in a wide-ranging session in the Oval Office, the president said he interpreted the Democratic election victories six weeks ago not as a mandate to bring the U.S. involvement in Iraq to an end but as a call to ...
• Dem Bloggers: ... for the WaPo on the interview noted that "A substantial military expansion will take years and would not immediately affect the war in Iraq." And Baker also pointed out that "Democrats have been calling for additional troops for years." Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) proposed an increase of 40,000 troops during his 2004 campaign against Bush, only to be dismissed by the administration. As recently as June, the Bush administration opposed adding more troops because restructuring "is enabling our military to get ...
• Today in Iraq: ... this to Secretary Gates and he is going to spend some time talking to the folks in the building, come back with a recommendation to me about how to proceed forward on this idea." Put it on your kid’s credit card : A force structure expansion would accelerate the already-rising costs of war. The administration is drafting a supplemental request for more than $100 billion in additional funds for the wars in ...
• D-Day: ... Eric Boehlert points out, one bad story wouldn't disqualify the documented, provable hundreds and thousands of deaths and violent acts occurring in Iraq on a continuous basis, so much so that the President has to go ahead and say "we're not winning," and the war's chief apologist, the guy that put "we're winning" on the cover of the National Review, writes something like ...
• TAPPED: ... (0) THE ARMY AFTER IRAQ. The president's plan to expand the military , particularly the Army, reminds me of a discussion I participated in last week at the Naval War College. When the United States finally withdraws from Iraq (whether in 2009 or 2012 or 2015), what's going to happen to the Army? In spite of the ...
• CorrenteWire | Ecrasez l'infame!: ... way too big, and a danger to its own country and the rest of the world, how would you go about reducing it, or at least its effectiveness in imposing imperialism? It was by all measures and estimations the most indominable force ever assembled… but now? President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the “stressed” U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of ...
• rubber hose: ... December 20, 2006 endgame bush admitted for the first time yesterday that we are not winning the war in iraq. this morning he adopted a proposal he previously said would make the country less safe when john kerry ...
• Crooks and Liars: ... today's Presser, Bush trys to explain his statement from the day before: " re not losing …" Video-WMP Video-QT (rough ...
• The Carpetbagger Report: ... strikes me as rather unfortunate that we’ve reached a point in which it’s literally front-page news when the president is willing to acknowledge that we are not winning the war in Iraq. Talk about your soft bigotry of low expectations. Indeed, it’s now considered progress when Bush dodges the question. ...
• Intrepid Liberal Journal: ... election night in 2004 lying has not served President Bush well. In a desperate quest to salvage his toxic legacy the President finally admitted we're not winning in Iraq as a pretext to deploy more troops and "strengthen" our military. Mr. President you are three years too late. Dispatching more troops will only result in more soldiers dying for a lost and immoral cause. Sadly the only realistic option is ...
• The Psychotic Patriot: ... So now he's on the fence. Soon we'll hear Tony Snow be all... "Hey, we've never said we're winning." One thing you can count on, is that while people are dying in Iraq, control of the language is the only mission ...
• 2Millionth Web Log: ... He's the reviser : As he searches for a new strategy for Iraq, Bush has now adopted the formula advanced by his top military adviser to describe the situation. "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington ...
• Shining Light In Dark Corners: ... in Ethiopia See Premier's Talk of War As Ploy to Tighten Grip (washingtonpost.com - World News and Analysis From The Washington Post) U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time (washingtonpost.com - World News and Analysis From The Washington Post) On the War, Determined to Go His Own Way ...
• Cursor.org - Table of Contents page: ... reports that President Bush, in an interview with the paper, "said he has not yet made a decision about a new strategy for ...
• The Grey Matter: ... now says we're "not winning" in Iraq. But then what about the sh*t storm that erupted when Gates said the exact same thing about two weeks ago?! Tony Snow had to engage ...