From: Ad 

Human sacrifice....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6223923.stm

"US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy
within days, the BBC has learnt.

The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to focus on
ways of bringing greater security, rather than training Iraqi forces.

The move comes with figures from Iraqi ministries suggesting that deaths
among civilians are at record highs.

The US president arrived back in Washington on Monday after a week-long
holiday at his ranch in Texas.

The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting
out changes in Mr Bush's Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of
next week.

Its central theme will be sacrifice.

The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers.

The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion,
according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security
rather than training Iraqi forces.

The proposal, if it comes, will be highly controversial.

Already one senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland. "

Let's hope the UK PBI don't get dragged into this but instead can continue
the steady hadning back of provinces /responsibility till they're left with
a couple of desert bases & covering the US lines of communication to
Kuwait.

Adam

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