U.S. to deploy 35,000 troops in Baghdad for elections

[liberal N proud]

They can get protection at the polls but we could not?

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Posted: 11:32 AM EST (1632 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military announced Wednesday that more than 35,000 American troops will be deployed on the streets of Baghdad on January 30, the date of Iraq's first democratic elections.

"We will be out in force," said Maj. Gen. Peter Chiarelli of the U.S. Army's Task Force Baghdad.

As daily insurgent attacks continue in the region, U.S. troops will be coordinating with Iraqi security forces to protect the 7 million residents of Baghdad as they go to the polls, Chiarelli said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/05/iraq.main/index.html

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1. Great

what about the other 18 million residents of Iraq?

[SweetLeftFoot]

2. How many

will come back though?

[Bouncy Ball]

3. Do they REALIZE how many people there are in Baghdad?

Hell we had over 600,000 troops just to get Iraqi forces out of KUWAIT! But we've got a TOTAL of 150,000 forces that are supposed to be securing and helping to rebuild the entire country?

It's almost like bush et al WANTED us to lose and/or get caught in a quagmire.