BBC News: President Bush to Boost Troop Levels in Iraq – Focus on Security
by John Little on 2/01/2007Word on the new plan is, not surprisingly, leaking out:
The BBC was told by a senior administration source that the speech setting out changes in Mr Bush’s Iraq policy is likely to come in the middle of next week.
Its central theme will be sacrifice.
The speech, the BBC has been told, involves increasing troop numbers.
The exact mission of the extra troops in Iraq is still under discussion, according to officials, but it is likely to focus on providing security rather than training Iraqi forces.
The proposal, if it comes, will be highly controversial.
Already one senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland.
If additional troops are sent at part of an aggressive strategy to kill insurgents I’ll be thrilled. But “providing security” doesn’t really say much about the strategy or how the additional troops will be used. We’ll just have to wait on the proposal.
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