Thursday, October 18, 2007

Coming Or Going?

September 14:

Last night, President Bush announced that because the “troop surge is working,” he would be pulling out roughly 23,700 troops by mid-July 2008 and returning the U.S. force in Iraq to pre-surge levels.

  Think Progress

September 18:

The Pentagon is preparing to alert eight National Guard units that they should be ready to go to Iraq or Afghanistan beginning late next summer, The Associated Press learned Wednesday

[...]

All together, the Guard announcement would involve about 20,000 soldiers.

  AP News

It’s hard for me to keep track, but something tells me that, indeed, the “surge” is not working.


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