special forces to iraq because she says the number has a tendency to grow. just point of fact, she has seen this movie before. and she and other democrats worked incredibly hard when george bush was president, having vote after vote after vote, pushing to get these troops home. finally they got a democrat, a like-minded democrat in the white house who did that, and now they re very concerned about this. the other point i would make is that after this meeting last night at the white house with nancy pelosi and other leaders of congress, bipartisan leaders, they came back and didn t say anything. they talked a little bit this morning, but they didn t say anything, which certainly was an indication that something was in the works already at the white house because, as you know, jake, you ve covered this a long time, when things break down and things are unclear, that s when other parties tend to spout off, and that didn t happen. dan that bash a bash on capi.