Will Bush increase troops in Iraq?

Increasing the number of troops in Iraq is a terrible idea, but it would put an end to John McCain’s presidential bid, since it would only be bad for the US in Iraq, would show him wrong once again wrong on Iraq, and then he’d have to flip flop on his Iraq strategy.

We tried increasing the troop levels in Baghdad by 7,000-8,000, which did nothing but increase US casualties; so really 20,000-30,000 more troops would be futile and only serve to prolong the fiasco and the loss of life on both sides. Now by adding 200,000 more troops we might be able to effectively fight the insurgency and start a war with the Mookster and his Mahdi army, but where do we get even 100,000 troops, and how do we justify the added cost even if we could?

A recent poll says that only about 10 percent of the country wants to increase troop levels, and the prevailing view in the military and other experts is that we should get, so why are we even talking about this. Besides, Congress isn’t going to go for it, and they shouldn’t approve increasing the permanent size of the Army and Marines either.