Bush to Make Decision on Possible Attack on Falluja: "Facing one of the grimmest choices of the Iraq war, President Bush and his senior national security and military advisers are expected to decide this weekend whether to order an invasion of Falluja, even if a battle there runs the risk of uprisings in the city and perhaps elsewhere around Iraq.
After declaring on Friday evening in Florida that 'America will never be run out of Iraq by a bunch of thugs and killers,' Mr. Bush flew to Camp David for the weekend, where administration officials said he planned consultations in a videoconference with the military commanders who are keeping the city under siege.
But in interviews, administration and senior military officials portrayed Mr. Bush's choices as dismal.
'It's clear you can't leave a few thousand insurgents there to terrorize the city and shoot at us,' one senior official involved in the discussions said on Saturday. 'The question now is whether there is a way to go in with the most minimal casualties possible.'"
Let's be clear about this. Bush is responsible for these war plans. He is managing the Iraq occupation. The deaths there are as a result of his decisions. He chose the war. He is prosecuting the war. And he must be held accountable for it.
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