THE US IN IRAQ: STAY THE COURSE,
PAY THE PRICE.

President George W Bush on 10 January 2007 ordered a "surge" of increased deployment of American forces to Iraq. At the same time the Democratic opposition, newly in power in the Senate as well as the House of Representatives, is searching for ways to stop Bush's defiant policy, confident that a growing majority of the American people do not want to up the ante.

Only by using the Congress's financial authority to deny the president the sinews of war, it seems, can President Bush be deterred from making a terrible situation worse. If that happens, it could trigger off a political and constitutional confrontation that will make Watergate look like a déjeuner sur l'herbe.

It is a good moment to ask two questions about the Bush administration's disastrous effort to impose its...

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