Bush’s Option to Escalate the War in Iraq

[Kevin Spidel]

Original Post: http://spidel.net/blog/?p=55

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By Norman Solomon

The Bush administration may ratchet up the Iraq war.

That might seem unlikely, even farfetched. After all, the president is facing an upsurge of domestic opposition to the war. Under such circumstances, why would he escalate it?

A big ongoing factor is that George W. Bush and his top aides seem to believe in red-white-and-blue violence with a fervor akin to religiosity. For them, the Pentagon’s capacity to destroy is some kind of sacrament. And even if more troops aren’t readily available for duty in Iraq, huge supplies of aircraft and missiles are available to step up the killing from the air.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. Madness

If this is true, then they really are mad and evil, and they're pushing the world into an increasingly dangerous situation.