1.0 link 37240 <![CDATA[White House Pushes for Troop Surge, Best Advice of Generals Be Damned]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/white-house-pushes-for-tr_b_37240.html Here comes the surge. Reports this week indicate the Pentagon is preparing to send 3,500 troops to Kuwait to await deployment to Iraq, the next step down a disastrous path of escalation.

Before the escalation becomes inevitable, it must be made clear that this reckless strategy is being dictated by the White House and not by the military commanders who are being poked, prodded, pushed -- and bribed -- into backing it.

Again and again and again, President Bush...

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