CBS: Military Tells Bush It Has Only 9,000 Troops Available For ‘Surge’
A State Department official leaked word this week that President Bush is considering sending “no more than 15,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops” to Iraq. “Instead of a surge, it is a bump,” the official said.
This claim was bolstered last night by CBS’s David Martin, who reported that military commanders have told Bush they are prepared to execute a troop escalation of just 9,000 soldiers and Marines into Iraq, “with another 10,000 on alert in Kuwait and the U.S.”
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The STATE DEPARTMENT leaked this? Son of a bitch--the movement of Negroponte to State means that, within a few months, Rice is gone.
Negroponte has always wanted to be Sec of State and now Rice's State Department leaks THIS???
Unbelieveable!
US troops are being overrun and chased like rabbits on the border with Mexico and the State Department is leaking military secrets to embarrass the administration.
If a DEMOCRAT was President right now, the MSM and the entire country would be HOWLING and GNASHING their teeth for someone's head...
--Pale Rider
