Wow, did the American people ever get sold a big pile of shit last January.
Bush isn't even going back down to pre-surge levels, readers.
We are going to have MORE soldiers there than before the surge.
And if the surge worked and things are getting so much better in Iraq, why do we have to leave increased force levels there?
I am really tired of the lies, readers.
"Pentagon Releases Projections for Forces"
"The Pentagon is projecting that when the United States troop buildup in Iraq ends in July there will be about 8,000 more troops on the ground than when it began in January 2007, a senior general said Monday.
Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, head of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that by July the troop total was likely to be 140,000. There were 132,000 troops there when President Bush approved orders to send five more Army brigades to Iraq to improve security and avert civil war.
General Ham also announced that the Pentagon believed that United States force levels in Afghanistan would be at 32,000 in late summer, up from about 28,000 now. The current total is the highest since the war began in October 2001, and 3,200 more marines are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan this spring.
Oh, we are going to SURGE in Afghanistan, too.
And increase operations in Pakistan, take on Iran... where the hell we gonna get the troops, readers?
I'm getting the shitstink whiff of a DRAFT, folks?
It had been widely expected that some support troops sent to Iraq with the five extra brigades would need to remain, even after July. But until now it was not clear what the number would be.
General Ham stressed that his projected number of 140,000 was subject to change depending on security conditions, but it was the first time the Pentagon had publicly estimated the total.
Asked if the total would be below 132,000 by the time President Bush leaves office next January, General Ham said, “It would be premature to say that.” Among the support forces needed beyond July, General Ham said, are military police officers, logistics troops, aviation forces and a headquarters staff to command combat forces in an area south of Baghdad. The headquarters of the Third Infantry Division was installed there as part of President Bush’s increase in forces in April. It will be replaced this summer by an unspecified unit, General Ham said."
We are never leaving Iraq.
You know that, don't you, readers?
AmeriKa's "newspapers" wouldn't tell you that, but I will.
