How many will Bush allow to die in Iraq before he gets his "benchmarks?"

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ron_full_070613_how_many_will_bush_a.htm

. . . as if the two bills he's pressing Iraq's parliament to pass would somehow end the violence and cause him to bring our troops home.


The Iraqi junta will never stop asking for more blood from our soldiers to defend their puppetry. All the resistance has to do to keep our forces bogged down in Iraq, most of them inviting targets, is keep up the killing. That's all they have to do, so long as Bush refuses to allow our soldiers to walk away. They'll just keep picking at our forces to elicit the predictable bravado from Bush as he tells them to bring it on from his protected bubble thousands of miles away . . .

Today finds the head puppet Maliki proposing yet another mission for our soldiers that the Iraqis should damn sure be doing themselves. Prime Minister Maliki has asked the U.S. commander in Iraq to send 'troop reinforcements' to Samarra where combatants have blown up the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine.

Aside from the apparent aim of those involved in the shrine bombings to stoke further unrest in the Shia community, there is the obvious goal of drawing the U.S. even further into the middle of Iraq's civil war to entice even more Iraqis to active and violent resistance to the propped-up Maliki regime's manufactured authority.

As if on cue, Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, former head trainer of the Iraqi forces, informed Congress yesterday that Iraq's military was short some 20,000 soldiers, owing to the more than 14,000 who were killed and the thousands of Iraqis who've abandoned their posts. Not surprisingly, Dempsey sees the U.S. military deeply involved in Iraq for years if we expect to ensure the cobbled government remains in power.

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1. To get his way he'd willingly let them all die

Spoiled brat psychopath that he is.

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2. 3 high level WH people went to Iraq this week to push these benchmarks. I think the WH is feeling

the HEAT!

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3. He doesn't care how many die.

He is only worried about enriching himself and his cronies!!

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4. The numbers speak for themselves

What was it, late April, when they announced that they would assess "the surge" in September? Could have been early May. For the sake of my terrible math skills, let's round the period to five months.

Last time I checked, America was losing approximately 2.5 soldiers a day. 63 per month. Five months times 63 is 315. So, I guess the answer to your question: How many will Bush allow to die in Iraq before he gets his "benchmarks?" is - 315.


NOTE: The above mentioned estimate does not include the thousands of killed Iraqs, the hundreds and hundreds of wounded soldiers, killed contractors, assorted Iraqi politicians and billions of taxpayer dollars.

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