I am strongly opposed to increasing troop levels in Iraq, and I am encouraged that even some far-right Repubs in the Senate such as Trent Lott have spoken out against sending more troops. My hope is that this issue will be the straw that broke the camel's back and get enough sane Repubs to turn against Bush to either get the ball rolling toward impeachment of Bush and Cheney or force their resignations as was done with Agnew/Nixon (remember Agnew went down first!). Even the most conservative Repubs who are paying attention have to recognize that Bush is either drunk/drugged out of his mind, mentally ill and delusional, or both. As for Cheney, I think he is pure evil. Six months before Agnew resigned and the Nixon administration started to crumble with all the revelations of Watergate, nobody thought a sitting president could be removed from office. No president or VP had ever resigned before. Remember that Nixon was elected by a landslide in '72, carrying 49 of 50 states, the biggest landslide ever in a presidential election. Bush lost the popular vote both times and barely squeaked by in the electoral college. My hope is that Bush will try to commit more troops without the support of Congress, and that this will lead to the collapse of whatever Republican support he has, and that this in turn will lead either to resignation or impeachment for Bush and Cheney. My hope is that neither will resign and that the crimes of both will be fully exposed in their impeachment hearings. (While I think Gerald Ford was a good, decent man--one of the best to ever occupy the White House as far as just being a good person, and while I think he did it for honorable reasons, I do not think he should have pardoned Nixon. Nixon should have been tried for his crimes.)