U.S. considers more troops for Iraq | Top News | Reuters.com

U.S. considers more troops for Iraq | Top News | Reuters.com: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush is weighing a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq, his spokesman said on Tuesday as he denied reports of a rift between the White House and resistant Pentagon chiefs.

With the White House predicting Washington will spend more than $2 billion a week on Iraq well into next year, a senior official declined to speculate on the cost of an extra 20,000 troops -- a figure U.S. media say Bush is weighing.

A temporary infusion of forces into Iraq was an idea the high-powered Iraq Study Group considered acceptable in its report, which also recommended Bush withdraw most U.S. forces from combat there by early 2008.

'It's something that's being explored,' White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters." Read complete post here.