He wants sacrifice? Let him send the twins

The BBC says that Bush is going to perform escalatio on Iraq as his "new way forward" in Iraq -- using other people's children:

US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt.

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths among civilians are at record highs.

The US president arrived back in Washington on Monday after a week-long holiday at his ranch in Texas.

The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush's Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week.

Its central theme will be sacrifice.

The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers.

The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion, according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security rather than training Iraqi forces.

And this accomplishes -- what? A permanent presence for the U.S. in Iraq by providing American kids to be clay ducks for the insurgencies target practice?

Is there anyone in the U.S. who signed on to supporting this war so that we could expend our human future and our tax dollars to be a security force for a nation hopelessly broken down?