Is this Plan B?

Congressional leaders from both political parties are giving President Bush a matter of months to prove that the Iraq war effort has turned a corner, with September looking increasingly like a decisive deadline.

In that month, political pressures in Washington will dovetail with the military timeline in Baghdad. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commanding general in Iraq, has said that by then he will have a handle on whether the current troop increase is having any impact on political reconciliation between Iraq's warring factions.

Link: September Could Be Key Deadline in War - washingtonpost.com

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that 10 US combat brigades with 35,000 troops have received orders to deploy to Iraq later this year, enough to sustain a “surge” in forces through the end of the year if necessary....

[Pentagon spokesman Bryan] Whitman said the 10 combat brigades, all from the active duty army, have been given orders to deploy between August and December of this year.

Link: The Raw Story | Deployment orders announced for 10 more US combat brigades