If President Bush had any lingering doubts about how the new Democrat-controlled Congress would react to the idea of surging thousands of additional troops into Iraq, the incoming Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, my friend Ike Skelton of Missouri, cleared those up for him this week.
On Monday, following the swearing-in of Robert Gates as the new Defense Secretary, he said:
"The recent speculation in the press regarding an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 or even...
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