Parents of Fallen Marine Make Plea to Bush (AP)

CLEVELAND - The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged
President Bush to either send more reinforcements to
Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether.

"We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II, said Tuesday.

Schroeder, 23, died two weeks ago in a roadside explosion, one of 16 Ohio-based Marines killed recently in Iraq.

AP Photo: Paul Schroeder and his wife Rosemary Palmer talk with reporters outside their Cleveland home, Tuesday,...

If we are to stay any longer in Iraq, we need more troops to secure the borders. Even the parents of a fallen Marine know this. If we don't increase the troop levels we need to get everyone out!

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And this from Think Pogress about troop levels.

DiRita’s Deceitful Reponse to American Progress

American Progress fellow Larry Korb recently published an op-ed that drew a response this past weekend from Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita.

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