Military Brass Recommend New Tactics To White House

"The nation's top uniformed leaders are recommending that the United States change its main military mission in Iraq from combating insurgents to supporting Iraqi troops and hunting terrorists, said sources familiar with the White House's ongoing Iraq policy review," the Washington Post reports. President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "met with the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [Wednesday].... The chiefs made no dramatic proposals but, at a time of intensifying national debate about how to solve the Iraq crisis, offered a pragmatic assessment of what can and cannot be done by the military." (Compiled by NationalJournal.com's Earlybird, Dec. 14)