Bush's Iraq plan faces battle on Hill ( Jr. working on SATurday).

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070106/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_54

Bush's Iraq plan faces battle on Hill

By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 41 minutes ago

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Bush, who met on Saturday with his national security team, has tapped new military commanders to lead the war effort and will disclose a new war strategy as early as Wednesday that is expected to include political, military and economic components.

The military solution, which has attracted the most attention and skepticism from Congress, probably will call for an increase in U.S. troops, possibly 9,000 additional troops deployed to Baghdad alone.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., shot down the suggestion of more troops within a day of gaining control of Congress.

"Based on the advice of current and former military leaders, we believe this tactic would be a serious mistake," Reid said in the Democratic radio address Saturday. Instead, Reid and Pelosi want Bush to begin pulling troops out in four to six months.
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Bush told more than a dozen senators Friday that he would settle on the option only if the Iraqi government offered certain guarantees, according to senators who attended the meeting...........

[PA Democrat]

1. Ooh, Junior working on a Saturday? I'll bet THAT made him cranky.

I can't help but think back to how he puffed his chest out and crowed about have "political capital" and how he was going to spend it after the 2004 election. I'd say the Bush "political capital" piggy bank is just about bankrupt at this point in time.

[flordehinojos]

2. how much will we have to pay in over time?

in translation, what further freedoms and civil liberties will he take away from us in exchange for his having to work on saturday!

stop the bastard. say no to bush!

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Iraq was only part of the work

Iran and all the warm fuzzies he wants from attacking them is what he is really working on!