Bush to keep troop levels in Iraq for '08

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: MSNBC

WASHINGTON - President Bush is expected to keep U.S. troop levels in Iraq near their current level through the end of the year, then pull home up to 8,000 combat and support troops by mid-January, The Associated Press has learned.

Embracing the recommendation of military advisers, Bush will likely maintain 15 combat brigades and thousands of support forces through the final full year of his administration, according to officials familiar with Bush's expected announcement Tuesday.

It could well be his final major decision on the U.S. troop posture in Iraq as president.

Bush is expected to let one Marine battalion, numbering close to 1,000 troops, go home on schedule in November and not replace it, but he otherwise would keep in place the current combat force.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. And Obama will pull the rest of the troops out.....

And indict the entire Bush Maladminstration for everything (A-Z), freeze all assets belonging to Carlyle, Bush, Halliburton, and Cheney and transfer all frozen assets to the U.S. Treasury.

Hawkeye-X

[LynnTheDem]

2. That`ll leave 7,000 troops MORE than when bush started his war of aggression.

The bUsh regime; stupid MFers.

[bdamomma]

3. mission accomplished huh George you

POS, he must be held accountable for murdering so many Iraqi and Americans. That arrogant POS should not go free.