ENI – The U.S. National Council of Churches, a long-standing critic of US military involvement in Iraq, has criticized President Bush's call for additional American troops to be sent to the region. “Sending more troops is not a change in policy, nor is it even a change in strategy; it is more of the same,” the NCC said in a statement about the president's declaration that he wants to increase the number of troops in Iraq by 21,500.
The church group described the call for more troops as “morally unsupportable.” There are currently about 130,000 American troops in Iraq. “The surge as recommended by the president is immoral,” the group asserted. “What we do not need is an assertion of more military strength. What we need is the strength of basic moral conviction.”
