NCC chief calls "barbaric execution of Saddam Hussein" President George W. Bush is promising a surge in troops in the war-torn country, ostensibly to help quell sectarian violence and stabilize Baghdad. Friday, January 12, 2007 Ekklesia The head of the leading US ecumenical body, the National Council of Churches USA, has described the call for more troops to be sent to Iraq as "morally unsupportable". President George W. Bush is promising a "surge" in troops in the war-torn country, ostensibly to help quell sectarian violence and stabilize Baghdad. "This escalation of troop presence only promises to guarantee an escalation in...