Joint Chiefs all agree: sending more troops is bad idea.

[Lanya]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801477_pf.html

[Amianthus]

Then one has to wonder why the new Democratic Congress is suggesting it.

[Lanya]

President Bush is suggesting it.  Sen. Reid says he'd go along with it but only if it were for a period of 2-3 months.
And I don't agree with him even on that short amount of time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_1

[Amianthus]

President Bush is suggesting it.  Sen. Reid says he'd go along with it but only if it were for a period of 2-3 months.

Dec. 5. 2006 - In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to “dismantle the militias.”

The soft-spoken Texas Democrat was an early opponent of the Iraq war and voted against the October 2002 resolution authorizing President Bush to invade that country. That dovish record got prominently cited last week when Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi chose Reyes as the new head of the intelligence panel.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16062351/site/newsweek/

[domer]

This is what I'll call "the return to horseshit" style of debate. I was wasn't aware that, unless announced as such, a politician's public comments become emblazoned in stone, never to be rethought.

[Lanya]

I don't agree with Rep. Reyes.