Officials: 30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009

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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20080627/US.Iraq.Troops/

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through 2009, The Associated Press has learned.
The deployments would replace troops currently there. But the decisions could change depending on whether Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, decides in the fall to further reduce troop levels in Iraq.

The surge that keeps on surging.