so we have to wait one more whole year

until april of 2008 to see results? no. that's insane. absolutely insane. how many (MORE) of our men and women will die between today, may 9, 2007 and april 1, 2008? ONE is too many. that is not even counting the number of iraqi lives lost and the number displaced, made into refugees.

no no no. this has to stop and it has to stop NOW. get our TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ

Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08
Pentagon to Deploy 35,000 Replacement Troops


By Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 9, 2007; Page A01
The Pentagon announced yesterday that 35,000 soldiers in 10 Army combat brigades will begin deploying to Iraq in August as replacements, making it possible to sustain the increase of U.S. troops there until at least the end of this year.
U.S. commanders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, announced by President Bush in January, will need to last into the spring of 2008. The military has said it would assess in September how well its counterinsurgency strategy, intended to pacify Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, is working.
"The surge needs to go through the beginning of next year for sure," said Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the day-to-day commander for U.S. military operations in Iraq............