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More Troops to be Sent to Iraq
Associated Press | August 09, 2005
WASHINGTON - Anticipating a new burst of insurgent violence, the Pentagon plans to expand the U.S. force in Iraq to improve security for a planned October referendum and a December election.
Although much public attention has been focused recently on the prospect of reducing U.S. forces next spring and summer, defense officials foresee the likelihood of first increasing troop levels.
Lawrence Di Rita, spokesman for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, noted Monday that troop levels were raised last January during Iraq's first elections, and then returned to the current level of about 138,000 several weeks later.
"It's perfectly plausible to assume we'll do the same thing for this election," he said, while stressing that no decisions had been made. Di Rita said he did not know how many extra troops might be needed during the referendum and election period.
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Looks like the Pentagon is getting a handle on things.. Troop rotations like this seems to be the norm for the next year or two. Hopefully incidents like last week's ambush will lessen. |
I see it as the cycle of death. They want the US out and think blowing up things will make them leave. the US sees things blown up, but cannot accept the thought of leaving, so instead think that bringing more will prevent incidents. So they have more US soldiers to blow up. We send em over, they blow em up. Thankfully it's not many and hopefully the effect will be that fewer people die. But it seems like and endless cycle that cannot have and end. I wish the oil would dry up so we could end this. I think the world has suffered greatly becuse of oil and fighting over it.