Speaking before a world affairs forum in Michigan, Bush said the two-month-old security crackdown under which he is adding 28,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq was "meeting expectations" and the ongoing violence reflected an expected reaction by insurgents.
Source: Sunshine and lollipops
In one of the deadliest attacks on American ground forces since the Iraq war started more than four years ago, a suicide car bomber struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad and killed nine U.S. soldiers and wounded 20, officials said.
Source: 9 more deaths
How many "expected reactions by insurgents" should we put up with before demanding a change of course?
What are the expected rewards by which we are dismissing ever-increasing costs and casualties as mere tokens to be paid lightly?
Do boasts of progress without reference to maps reduce the wanderings of the lost?
Are these deaths for nothing?
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