AP: U.S. Military Bringing Equipment Home--very detailed story

[Gloria]

Sorry if this is a dupe...

This sounds just like what Gen. Clark describes in terms of the difficulty in pulling out of a zone quickly
and...
I wonder if this is a not so "stealth" withdrawal beyond the drawdown to 100,000 that we here about...note the reference to '08....there are loads of details in this about troops not going over, etc. A lot of info here in the full story....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060621/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_war_equipment

AP: U.S. military bringing equipment home

By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer Wed Jun 21, 2:30 PM ET


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"It is much harder to move equipment than it is to move people," said Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute. "So if the Army is increasing its movement of equipment out of the country, that may signal that it expects fewer soldiers in Iraq six or 12 months from now."

U.S. military commanders in Iraq have refused to set a timetable for a complete withdrawal of coalition troops, saying such a drawdown would be based on ground conditions.

O'Connor said the exodus of American rubber and steel from Iraq is scheduled to continue into the fall. Equipment headed back to the United States includes armored vehicles used by soldiers on patrols as well as many unarmored vehicles typically used inside the boundaries of secure U.S. military posts.


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Under a plan announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi security forces will take responsibility for security in all of the country's 18 provinces within 18 months.

"With the talk of getting home by '08, we're leaning forward and trying to get all of that stuff out," O'Connor said. "We've got to rebuild an Army that's at war, and then make it ready for the next war. Clearly there are some challenges."

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[unhappycamper]

1. Wanna get out easy? Blow the shit up.

Hallibuton does.