US, Iraqi troops to go to Baghdad 'in fairly good numbers': Rumsfeld

[tocqueville]

by Jim Mannion
57 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Thousands of US and Iraqi troops will be sent to Baghdad to beef up security under a plan being worked out by US commanders and Iraq's prime minister, US defense officials said.

"There are more Iraqi troops that will be going into Baghdad than US but both will be going in, in fairly good numbers, more than hundreds," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Maliki visited the Pentagon after meeting President George W. Bush at the White House earlier in the day to discuss the plans for beefed up security in Baghdad, the scene of escalating sectarian violence.

A senior US defense official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said the plan involved the movement of thousands of additional US and Iraqi troops from around the country into Baghdad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060725/ts_alt_afp/usiraqmilitary


this is the beginning of the fall of Saigon...ehr... Baghdad

[babylonsister]

1. This should hamper the November plans; thus this mid-east mess? nt

[Monkeyman]

2. And who will be in the rest of Iraq ???

[tocqueville]

4. Good Question

Answer : Iraqi militias...

[jimshoes]

5. They're using the FEMA model

Y.O.Y.O. = You're on your own! :yoiks:

[Rex]

3. Amazing...we've learned nothing from Vietnam.

Rummy is the biggest joke I've ever seen.

[uppityperson]

6. helicopters

[w8liftinglady]

7. I get it,now-the non-stop Israel/Lebanon coverage

The networks have received their orders to avoid covering this fiasco,where OUR people are getting killed and maimed.

[Postman]

8. Let's Play Wack-A-Mole !!!!

which is all they are doing...

[creeksneakers2]

9. Why won't they give the number of troops?

My guess is the movement is so massive that saying how many troops are going to Baghdad would tip off the public that the rest of Iraq is being written off.

[w8liftinglady]

10. exactly...or they are pulling in troops from kuwait and Egypt