I vote Go Home. Where do you suppose they’re going to come up with 29-30,000 more troops? And what do you think the outcome of that strategy will be? Of course they’d choose Go Long, because they’re not done raping the American taxpayers yet, or killing their kids. And where’s the friggin Baker report? Just askin….

From the Washington Post article:

The group has devised a hybrid plan that combines part of the first option with the second one — “Go Long” — and calls for cutting the U.S. combat presence in favor of a long-term expansion of the training and advisory efforts. Under this mixture of options, which is gaining favor inside the military, the U.S. presence in Iraq, currently about 140,000 troops, would be boosted by 20,000 to 30,000 for a short period, the officials said.

The purpose of the temporary but notable increase, they said, would be twofold: To do as much as possible to curtail sectarian violence, and also to signal to the Iraqi government and public that the shift to a “Go Long” option that aims to eventually cut the U.S. presence is not a disguised form of withdrawal.