http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031017/ts_nm/iraq_usa_general_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops may have to stay in Iraq until 2006 to fully secure the country they invaded in March, a top U.S. general said on Friday.
Lieutenant General Thomas Metz, commander of the 3rd Corps, said there could be two more yearly troop rotations until newly trained Iraqi forces are ready to take over.
"We're engaged in the long term to be successful here," Metz told reporters in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
"The current pace of success leads me to believe we could have an end state of (another) rotation or two."
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