I know, two postings in one day is rarer than lightening striking twice, but I just had to write this one down…

It just came in over the wires that the 3,000th American military death occurred in Iraq during the last week. This means that more Americans have died fighting in Iraq than the number of Americans that died on September 11, 2001. While this includes the 24 missing Americans that have yet to be accounted for from that day, the total tally does not count the deceased American troops in that forgotten conflict, Afghanistan.

And with this line now being crossed, Bush is seriously considering pumping up troop levels by an additional 30,000. Where is the logic in this? Those 30,000 troops should have been there from the very beginning, not three years too late when the bullets and bombs are flying, therefore putting more troops in the middle of a civil war and pumping up the number of military dead.

The Administration’s logic seems to resemble that of Vietnam a generation ago where it was felt that the solution was to send more and more troops to the region. This seems to be happening all over again…

Click here for the BBC report.