size of Afghanistan "surge" growing?

a message from Cindy Sheehan:

With the announced increase in US troop levels to Afghanistan and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, promising after the extra 30,000 troops are sent to Southern Afghanistan that "When we get additional troops here, I think the violence level is going to go up. The fight will be tougher," I thought it would be appropriate to re-release an article that I wrote on July 13th, 2006.

I have also heard some anecdotal evidence from several people who do counter-recruitment that recruiters are targeting young people of color even more intensely now telling them that they will be "Fighting for Obama," but I haven't seen any recruitment figures since the election.

Even more urgently, Dick Cheney, et al, are all over the media, not only admitting to, but bragging about war crimes. It is time that an American administration be held criminally accountable for their war crimes, as I say in my article below*.

This is so distressing to me that we are being conditioned to see Afghanistan as the "good war" and that the flag-draped coffins that will only be viewed by the dead soldier's family and loved ones will start to stream home and the "anti-Republican-war" movement will stand down as evidenced at the recent United for Peace and Justice gathering where it was decided to do a mass protest highlighting the "economic crisis" in NYC instead of an anti-war protest on the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

There will be a mass mobilization on March 21st around the nation anyway with the Peace Movement leading the way.

* http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0711-27.htm