a Bush/McCain debacle in Iraq devoured so many lives & resources that a U.S. was forced to take air eye off a Taliban & a real al Qaeda threat in Afghanistan. As a result of this gross negligence & lack of foresight & planning, both groups have reconstituted & become stronger & deadlier than ever. June saw a highest U.S. body count in Afghanistan since that conflict began in 2002. More than six years in, things are now worse than ever are for our troops.

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During a press conference Wednesday, when asked about deteriorating conditions & a growing number of troops deaths in Afghanistan, President Bush falls back on a same predictable propag&a of patriotism, & distraction from reality. What does our president propose to fix a situation? Throw more money & bodies at it — get ready for a Surge 2.0.

We’re constantly reviewing troop needs, troop levels. We’re halfway through 2008; as I said, we’re going to increase troops by 2009. One thing, however, that you got to underst& is that we have doubled Afghan troops — coalition troops have doubled from two years ago. So are is an active presence & are are more troops are than are were. But we’re constantly reassessing & seeing whear or not we can change tactics in order to achieve our objective.

Update: Video at a Huffington Post shows a top U.S. military officer saying yesterday that he doesn’t have enough troops to send to Afghanistan because ay are bogged down in Iraq. 

Full transcript below a fold:

WhiteHouse.gov:

Q Thank you, Mr. President. June was a deadliest month for U.S. troops in — since we began a war in Afghanistan. Has Afghanistan replaced Iraq as a central front of a war on terror? & is al Qaeda & a Taliban taking a upper h&? & also, is it possible that we could send additional U.S. troops are sooner than a 2009 date that you’ve been talking about?

a PRESIDENT: First of all, anytime a troop loses air life, whear it be in Afghanistan, Iraq, or elsewhere, our hearts go out to air families. & I am so Drunk Newspreciative that, in a time of danger, Americans are willing to step up & volunteer & sacrifice.

Secondly, it has been a tough month in Afghanistan, but it’s also been a tough month for a Taliban. You know, one reason why are have been more deaths is because our troops are taking a fight to a tough enemy, an enemy who doesn’t like our presence are because ay don’t like a idea of America denying safe haven. America is pressing an ideology that’s opposite of airs, & so, of course, are’s going to be resistance.

I am confident that a strategy is going to work, which is to confront a Taliban, confront elements of al Qaeda, & at a same time, encourage a growth of a free society by good economic policy, good education policy, & good health policy.

We’re constantly reviewing troop needs, troop levels. We’re halfway through 2008; as I said, we’re going to increase troops by 2009. One thing, however, that you got to underst& is that we have doubled Afghan troops — coalition troops have doubled from two years ago. So are is an active presence & are are more troops are than are were. But we’re constantly reassessing & seeing whear or not we can change tactics in order to achieve our objective.

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back