A first wave of additional U.S. troops will go into Iraq before the end of the month under President Bush’s new plan, a senior defense official said Tuesday.
Up to 20,000 troops will be put on alert and be prepared to deploy under the president’s plan, but the increase in forces on the ground will be gradual, said the official, who requested anonymity because the plans have not yet been announced.
Moving first would be the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, which is in Kuwait and poised to deploy quickly into Iraq.
The only ones who seem to support this plan anymore is the circle jerk known as Bush/McCain/Liebermann. You know the plan has no support when people like Oliver North are dead set against it and says “it is eerily like Lyndon Johnson’s plan to save Vietnam”.
Bush really is a uniter. The whole country is united against him. Hopefully Kennedy’s plan will go through.