U.S. May Send More Soldiers to Iraq (it getting drafty in here) [View All]

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AP News

U.S. May Send More Soldiers to Iraq
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: September 24, 2003


Filed at 4:16 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States may have to alert thousands more National Guard and Reserve troops within weeks that they are needed for duty in Iraq, the Pentagon's second-ranking general said Wednesday.

The Bush administration still hopes that Turkey, India, Pakistan or South Korea will contribute thousands of troops for security duty in Iraq, said Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But military planners are not counting on it.

``Hope is not a plan,'' Pace said in an interview with a group of reporters at a Washington hotel.

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