On the Ground!

cnn.com July 12:
"The president is pleading for more patience," said CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry. "He's not really offering a new prescription to deal with the violence on the ground in Iraq. Instead he's urging lawmakers to give him until September to see if the current troop increase will work -- but a growing number of his fellow Republicans are telling him time is running out and they want a course change sooner than September."