More US Troops Seen in Iraq by Summer

[babylonsister]

More US Troops Seen in Iraq by Summer
By Andrew Gray
Reuters

Friday 15 February 2008



Washington - The United States will probably have more troops in Iraq this summer than it did before pouring in forces last year - even after a planned drawdown, a U.S. general said on Friday.

There were some 132,000 U.S. troops in Iraq before President George W. Bush ordered a surge of about 30,000 more to curb rampant violence that threatened to plunge the country into all-out civil war.

By summer, U.S. commanders plan to have withdrawn more than 20,000 combat troops deployed as part of the surge. But officials indicated some support units sent around the same time would remain or be replaced.

"It's likely that... the (total) number will be a little bit larger than the 132,000 or so that was the number of personnel on the ground pre-surge," said Army Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, director of operations on the Pentagon's Joint Staff.

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[BrotherBuzz]

1. Meanwhile, operations are going swimmingly in Afghanistan

[gateley]

2. And Pakistan is pretty close to blowing, too. nt

[VP505]

3. Seems like they

want to bump up the numbers so that the level of violence will appear to be down in time for the June Primaries and November election.

[spanone]

4. bu$h will surge right up the nations ass.....impeach now