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Top US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush Wednesday that his Iraq troop "surge" policy was a failure. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq by sending him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later on Wednesday. "As many had forseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results," the two leaders wrote.

Harry Reid: More Troops To Iraq!

This last Sunday, Harry Reid, the incoming Democratic majority leader in the U.S. Senate, went on ABC's Sunday morning show and declared that a hike in U.S. troops in Iraq is OK with him. Here's the evolution of the Democrats' war platform since Nov. 7, 2006, the day the voters presented a clear mandate: "End the war! Get out of Iraq!" and took the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives away from the Republicans.

So the Democrats recaptured both the Senate and the House and swiftly went to work — to obliterate the mandate. The first thing they did was reject Jack Murtha, the man who said "Quit Now" in 2005. They voted down Murtha as House majority leader and picked the pro-war Steny Hoyer. Then Nancy Pelosi, chose Silvestre Reyes as House Intelligence Committee chairman. Reyes promptly told Newsweek, "We're not going to have stability in Iraq until we eliminate those militias, those private armies. We have to consider the need for additional troops to be in Iraq, to take out the militias and stabilize Iraq … I would say 20,000 to 30,000 — for the specific purpose of making sure those militias are dismantled, working in concert with the Iraqi military."

http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/harry-reid-more-troops-to-iraq.html

Pelosi Was For A Surge Before She Was Against It

http://www.iowavoice.com/2007/01/10/pelosi-was-for-a-surge-before-she-was-against-it/

MR. RUSSERT: Would you send more American troops in order to stabilize the situation?
REP. PELOSI: Yes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5086094/