At the request of military commanders I

decided to send in reinforcements, Bush

said today.

This is a lie.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff overwhelmingly were

against the troop surge, unanimously according

to the Washington Post, which the President said falsely he decided at

their request.

The Iraq commanders overwhelmingly were

against the troop surge, which the President

said falsely he decided at their request.

When the man who calls himself the decider

made the decision to escalate the war, the

Joint Chiefs of Staff and our commanders in

Iraq were against this escalation.

Any other assertion is a lie.

I grew up at a time when the idea of calling the

President of the United States a liar was just

unheard of.

When I was high school with Lyndon Johnson,

Robert Strange McNamara, and Richard Nixon

escalating the war in Vietnam things did indeed

begin to change with "the crediblity gap".

It is too late for this President to engage in

profound soul searching about what has gone

so terribly wrong with his presidency and with

his war.

It is too late for this President to engage in

profound soul searching about why he causes

such intense revulsion throughout America and

throughout the free world.

I do not believe George W. Bush is capable

of such reflection, integrity of thought, honor

of discussion. He is trapped in a world of

partisanship, delusion and desperation.

He sends troops to war without adequate body

armor, protected vehicles, helmets, bandages

and supplies yet he accuses opponents of not

supporting the troops.

He sends troops to war with such negligence

and lack of support that the Marine Corps

pathologist finds that up 70% of the killed

and wounded were preventable casualties,

yet he accuses opponents of not supporting

the troops.

He allows shameful derelictions of treatment

for wounded troops that should never occur

in our country, yet he accuses opponents of

not supporting the troops.

There is an Orwellian character to these attacks

and a delusional character to this President's

inability to respect facts, common sense, truth

and honor in political discourse.

The President said today he decided to surge

the troops and escalate the war because our

commanders asked him to.

The President lied. They pleaded with him,

to do the exact opposite.