The decision revealed yesterday by Nancy Pelosi's pick for intelligence chairman sure will and has surprised many democrats and republicans alike. He, unlike 95% of his contemporaries on that side of the aisle, is calling for an increase in troop levels to finally do what should have been a long time ago to finally kick the living crap out of these troubling pesky militia's causing some of the havoc over there.
General of the cut & run brigade John Murtha has got to be steaming over this revelation. Good.
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General of the cut & run brigade John Murtha has got to be steaming over this revelation. Good.
Iraq: Top Dem Wants More Troops - Newsweek Terror Watch - MSNBC.com: "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.”
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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.
But in an interview with NEWSWEEK on Tuesday, Reyes pointedly distanced himself from many of his Democratic colleagues who have called for fixed timetables for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. " read more
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