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AP: Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments
The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year’s end.
The deployments would maintain a level of 15 brigades in Iraq, or roughly 140,000 troops - the number [...]
Speaker Pelosi in Iraq
Washington, D.C. (rightcommentary.com): U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a key Democrat critic of President George Bush’s war policy in Iraq, landed in Baghdad on Saturday for talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials, the U.S. embassy said.
An embassy spokeswoman said Pelosi would meet U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and the Commander of U.S. forces in [...]
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