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Sources: Iraq plan calls for more troops, more spending

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush’s new plan for Iraq will call for increasing the number of U.S. troops in Baghdad — and perhaps other areas — by at least 20,000, sources said.

Debate within the Bush administration has been whether to send troops all in as a “big bang” force right away, or phase them in from month to month, contingent on whether the Iraqi leadership meets certain political and military goals, sources said.

“The whole struggle — has been for weeks and even months — is: What is [Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki] going to do about [radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr]?” one source said.

The phased-in approach “seems to be winning the day,” the sources said.

“It also allows the Pentagon to get its people ready to go,” one said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, cautioned Sunday that if Bush calls for additional U.S. troops for Iraq, he will have to show the Democratic-controlled Congress why more money should be poured into the war. (Full story)

Sources familiar with Bush’s deliberations said White House speechwriters worked “around the clock” over the weekend to prepare the address for the plan’s critical midweek unveiling.

Over the next few days, the president will review and rework the speech, expected to be delivered Wednesday.

The plan had been dubbed “A New Way Forward” as of last week.

Aspects of it have been widely agreed upon, although the plan’s not final, said three sources familiar with deliberations.

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