Is 'we not replace' grammatically correct?

[Iwanna]

I read (not heard) these sentences from Mr. Bush's speech:

question 1:

He has recommended that we not replace about 2,200 Marines scheduled to leave Anbar Province later this month.

——'would' was omited here, wasn't it?

question 2:

These gains are a tribute to our military, they are a tribute to the courage of the Iraqi Security Forces, and they are a tribute to an Iraqi government that has decided to take on the extremists.

——what did 'take on' mean here?

[Yankee]

[Lost_Soul]

[Yankee]

[Iwanna]

thank you very much, Yankee.

BTW: In the top 10 Bushisms, 'Is our children learning' comes up to the 3rd, why? Is it just because the singular 'Is' goes along with the plural 'children' ? I don't think this mistake is more serious than those in the lower ranked, such as 'wings take dream' ,'to put food on your family',etc. ,isn't it?

And，the 10th Bushism is 'Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.'-----Is 'Families is where' acceptable among native speakers or not?

[Sean In Ca]

Something I hear / see from time to time is the phrase "Your ______ needs replaced."

I live in a semi-agricultural area of California and never heard this phrase before I moved here from New York, so I am going to attribute its usage to some kind of dust bowl era transplant.

But it's wrong, right? To make this proper English, the words "to be" need to be inserted between needs and replaced. Alternatively, I suppose you could just change "replaced" to "replacing" in order to keep the tenses correct?

I'd appreciate some feedback, because every time I see this written or spoken, that little tuning fork goes off inside my head and I get the overwhelming urge to correct the writer / speaker.

[Yankee]

Hi Sean

I don't use that construction, either. I believe its use is strictly regional. As far as I know, this construction is also commonly used in the Pittsburgh, PA area, for example, but I'm not sure what other areas might tend to use it.

Jamie(K) may well know more about it.
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[Jamie (K)]

In my experience, that "needs V-ed" is usually characteristic of US Midlands rural speech. The Midland dialect area is one that basically runs in a strip from the coast of Delaware, through Pennsylvania, on through Ohio and Indiana, and then stops at the western borders of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. So you'll hear people from places as far apart as western Pennsylvania and southern Indiana say things like, "This floor needs mopped," or, "This coat needs cleaned."

Here is the US dialect map:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NatMap1.html