Iraq: No troop reductions untill 2010

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Army: Troops to Stay in Iraq Until 2010

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRAQ?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-10-11-11-22-10


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday, a later date than Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far.

The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned against reading too much into the planning, saying troops levels could be adjusted to actual conditions in Iraq. He said it is easier to hold back forces scheduled to go there than to prepare and deploy units at the last minute.

"This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better," Schoomaker told reporters. "It's just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot."

Even so, his comments were the latest acknowledgment by Pentagon officials that a significant withdrawal of troops from Iraq is not likely in the immediate future.

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1. No troop reductions...

barring the three or four killed every day and the twenty to thirty wounded.

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2. Hmmm, now Condi was just saying yesterday how she told

them Iraqis that they were going to have to take over operations of their government by the end of the year. What gives?

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3. This should be the top news story of the day. But nooooo

It will get buried like all the other stuff that Bushco doesn't want the world to see.