Bush to send some 20,000 more troops to Iraq:senator
President George W. Bush has decided to send about 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq, a Republican senator who met the president on Monday said. “It was clear to me that a decision has been made for a surge of, I suppose, 20,000 additional troops,” Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon told reporters in a telephone conference call after a White House meeting. Full Story