Tony Snow: Bush Is Not “Locking Horns” With Joint Chiefs...

Associated Press December 19, 2006 05:17 PM

he White House said Tuesday that increasing U.S. troops in Iraq is an option under consideration and denied that there are differences with the Joint Chiefs of Staff over that idea...
..."I think people are trying to create a fight between the president and the Joint Chiefs when one does not exist," Snow said at a White House briefing. He would not disclose if Bush was leaning one way or the other about increasing troops in Iraq or a new direction in U.S. policy.

According to some accounts, the White House is pushing the idea of a surge in troops and the Joint Chiefs oppose it. (Watch how increasing troop levels must involve more than "thickening the mix" Video)

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