When George Bush announced he was considering adding additional troops a lot of people probably thought "golly gee whilikers, why hadn't anyone thought of that before?"
Yeah, why hadn't that been considered before? Say during an election campaign, for instance in 2004? You say someone did discuss that? John Kerry? Surely not, the media would have been all over the story that the Bush administration is following John Kerry's recommendation. Right? Oh, yeah, right, we're talking about the Washington Typists here. Never mind...
However, let's go back to the way back machine. In early June 2004 Kerry said "more U.S. troops and a new president could be needed to win international support for U.S. efforts in postwar Iraq." And how did the Bush administration react? Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, said the country would be "less safe" under Kerry's approach.
So is Bush now working to make the country "less safe"? Or was Kerry the only realist on the campaign trail in 2004 and the Bushies didn't care whether they were being honest, all they cared about was confusing the public just enough and just long enough to win the 2004 race.
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