Bush and company are saying Iraq-War opponents need to offer a coherent alternative plan or stay quiet.

Give alternative Iraq plan, Bush dares critics

Lest Mr. Bush has forgotten, let me remind him that there was a great big bi-partisan report offering an alternative and a list of suggestions.

I don’t recall an increase of troops in that plan.

So Bush + Team, please review the plan right here!

A small excerpt on this topic.

Sustained increases in U.S. troop levels would not solve the fundamental cause of violence in
Iraq, which is the absence of national reconciliation. A senior American general told us that adding U.S. troops might temporarily help limit violence in a highly localized area. However, past experience indicates that the violence would simply rekindle as soon as U.S. forces are moved to another area. As another American general told us, if the Iraqi government does not
make political progress, �all the troops in the world will not provide security.� Meanwhile, America�s military capacity is stretched thin: we do not have the troops or equipment to make a substantial, sustained increase in our troop presence. Increased deployments to Iraq would also necessarily hamper our ability to provide adequate resources for our efforts in Afghanistan or respond to crises around the world.