We don't have enough trooops in... so we put more in. Seems to make sense. More people to watch each others backs. Take troops out, and expect them to do the same jobs of protecting themselves and the areas we have under control... and we're just going to get more casualties. It always takes more troops to win an occupation then it does a war... and that's basically what this is. Sure we'll get out eventually once things are fixed... or we divide up the country which always works great... but the whole thing is just an occupation at the moment, with a set up of a puppet government. Well except the government seems to hate us other then the fact that they know they need us right now. Principls are the same as far as how they work. Besides which... they don't have enough troops to secure the borders of Iraq as it is, which is causing some insurgents to come in... the minority mind you, but still the more insurgants the more trouble there is. Then you've got the whole Turkey thing. No clue how the governments going to handle that one. Having more troops in Iraq doesn't mean that you can't seek diplomatic solutions too... it just means you think you need more troops in Iraq.
