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Military: Don't double down.
Josh Marshall reads the Washington Post:
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The Post has an article on the president's and vice president's meeting Wednesday with the Joint Chiefs. It's a long article but this is what jumped out at me:
- "The chiefs do not favor adding significant numbers of troops to Iraq, said sources familiar with their thinking, but see strengthening the Iraqi army as pivotal to achieving some degree of stability. They also are pressing for a much greater U.S. effort on economic reconstruction and political reconciliation."
So the military brass does not favor 'double down', as it's come to be known in the wingosphere. They also appear to be signaling that they do not believe there is a military solution to the crisis.
It does appear you've got a basic division in the country: the public and the military brass on one side and President Bush and the DC war pundits on the other.
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