Troop "Surge"

President Bush laid out his upcoming "plan" for Iraq. This "plan" included sending over 20,000 more troops to Iraq in yet another "surge". This time those troops will be used a bit differently. Instead of acting on their own, they will be intergrated into the Iraqi army in order to help train them and keep watch over them.



Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), expressed their support for a troop "surge" in Iraq - the plan reportedly being developed by the Bush administration to address growing insurgent violence.
McCain said withdrawing troops would leave Iraq without security, making it impossible for the nation to make political progress and economic development.
In a letter to Bush Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote that a troop surge would be more of the same of Bush's "failed" policy.-http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200701/NAT20070105d.html

To read House Speaker Pelosi's letter to Bush Click Here