Augmentation

Watching Condi testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on DVR, and I'm finding it interesting that she won't use the term "surge," and she objects to the term "escalation" (more on that in a minute). Instead, she talks about the "augmentation" of the policy in Iraq. But does anyone use "augmentation" in any context, any more, other than in the phrase "breast augmentation"? And that is, of course, a kind of cosmetic surgery. So this policy is just for show?

Btw, the reason Rice objects to "escalation" is that "escalation" means more than an increase in numbers, she says; it would mean . . . a change in policy, and this is not a change in . . . policy. But the president is on the road, talking about how this is a new policy. So, is this a new policy, or not?

This hearing is truly great Senate tv.