Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's letter to the President

Surging forces is a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again would be a serious mistake. They, like us, believe there is no purely military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution.

Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.

We appreciate you taking these views into consideration.

There is no chance that the Democrats will actually do anything to stop the surge plan--like cut funding. They will very publically oppose the surge plan but not stop it. The surge plan will fail. The Democrats win politically. More American soldiers will die. If the Democrats were to actually stop the surge plan then Bush would blame them for Iraq's downward spiral into hell.