Here's the News Breaking on More Soldiers going to Iraq

This was taken from salon, but identical to various places across the web:

Democratic Rep. John Murtha from Pennsylvania, a ranking minority member of the
defense subcommittee of the House appropriations committee, said this today:

"I have learned through conversations with officials at the Pentagon that at the beginning of November, 2004, the Bush Administration plans to call up large numbers of the military guard and reserves, to include plans that they previously put off to call up the Individual Ready Reserve. I have said publicly and privately that our forces are inadequate to support our current worldwide tempo of operations. On November 21, 2003, a bipartisan group of 135 members of the House of Representatives wrote to the President urging an increase in the active duty army troop levels and expressed concern that our Armed Forces are over-extended and that we are relying too heavily on the Guard and Reserve. We didn't get a reply until February 2004, and now as the situation in Iraq is deteriorating, it seems that the Administration will resort to calling up additional guard and reservists, again with inadequate notice."

of course, Bush doesn't want this out BEFORE election day? might interfere w/ the way he's portraying Iraq to the voters right now.