Democrats, Jim Webb readying tonight's rebuttal

While President Bush plans to focus more on domestic issues in tonight's State of the Union speech rather than on one of the worst blunders in Presidential history, the War in Iraq, Senator Jim Webb, in his rebuttal speech, plans to refute the President's plan to send 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, whether Bush wants to talk about it or not. Via the Associated Press:

"I don't particularly view this surge program as a change in strategy at all," said freshman Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia, the Vietnam veteran chosen to deliver his party's response to Bush's speech Tuesday night.

"I don't see it as strategic, other than perhaps politically strategic," Webb said in a conference call Monday with reporters. "It's just a lot more flailing around rather than coming up with something specific that's going to end our involvement and bring better stability to the region."