(Not-soon-enough-to be-ex)President George Bush continually amazes me. The Iraq Study Group expressed what the large majority of Americans have already long since realized-we need to start to draw down the military presence in Iraq. Yet he's decided to INCREASE the troop level. It’s as if our president is a rebellious teenager, doing the opposite of what the wiser elders tell him to do, just because he can get away with it. Impulsive, all ego,acting without fully considering all the possible outcomes, just the desired one-yup, sounds like a teenager to me.

Increase the troop levels. Hmmmm. If this isn’t what my Mom would've labeled “a day late and a dollar short" then nothing is.

I remember Mr. Bush saying that he wouldn’t send our troops anywhere to die without good cause, yet that is exactly what he did. Everything he supposedly thought was true and lead us to believe was true wasn't true. There was no reason to send our troops to Iraq. The lives and talents of brave, courageous, dedicated, unselfish, devoted patriots are being wasted for no reason, many lost forever-the light of life and all the gifts and talents for that young life are gone. As some would ask about aborted fetuses or frozen embryos, "Who knows what diseases might have been cured or inventions born or novels written, paintings painted or lives saved by those who have been killed?" I ask this about our troops.

Based on his decisions it seems that Mr. Bush places more value on the lives of frozen embryos than those of living adults. It’s as if these people are simply toy soldiers in the war games of the Boy King. Increase the troop levels….say what??? These are people, many whose gifts and talents and light of life will be extinguished forever. People-who we need to fight off the real enemy-those who actually damaged us and who are out there still, seeking to do more. People-who were taken away from fighting that real enemy in Afghanistan, or rather, never sent out to fight them at Tora Bora in the first place. (btw where is Osama? thought Bush was gonna git 'em dead or alive-more empty talk).

But if Mr. Bush is so devoted to this cause in Iraq, then I think he should kick off the process of troop increase by sending the twins there-or at least one of them, geez. This act would be the only indisputable proof of the sincerity of his dedication. Because then he would be really risking something-something precious that he has asked far too many American parents to risk. And he himself might have something precious to lose if the results of his decision are a disaster.