by Jeho Hong
In his new plans for rebuilding Iraq, President Bush spoke to the nation about the importance of sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq. On January 22nd, President Bush stood in front of the U.S. Congress to deliver his annual State of the Union address.
President Bush acknowledged the unexpected length of the rebuilding of Iraq. There are still many anti-U.S. Iraqi guerillas fighting against U.S. soldiers. Everyday there are deaths of U.S. soldiers as well as Iraqi civilians. When the President talked about the need to send more troops, the message was not received well by the House for the people felt that the war has gone on way to long without any major improvements to the Iraqi region. "Congress is incapable of micromanaging the tactics in the war," said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a 2008 presidential candidate, said increasing troops would be a "tragic mistake." But he contended Congress was constitutionally powerless to second-guess President Bush's military strategy because lawmakers had voted to authorize the commander in chief to wage war. Majority of the U.S. public is disapproving of President’s foreign polls, which resulted in many U.S. military deaths. "When we authorized this war, we accepted the responsibility to make sure they could prevail," Sen. Joe Biden wrote. "Even greater than the costs incurred thus far and in the future are the catastrophic consequences that would ensure from our failure in Iraq."
Trippe Gibson response to President Bush’s new plans that sending more troops to Iraq will not solve the problem. He believes longer we stay in Iraq will bring more hatred towards the U.S. What the U.S. needs to do is to get out of Iraq and have them set up their own democratic government.
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