[A-List] Re-Surge-nce

[Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, Jun. 27, 2008
30,000 troops to be ordered to Iraq in early ’09
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON | The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to 
Iraq early next year, The Associated Press has learned.

The move would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in Iraq 
through 2009.

The deployments would replace troops currently there. But the decision 
could change depending on whether Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. 
commander in Iraq, decides in the fall to further reduce troop levels in 
Iraq.

Officials familiar with the deployments spoke on condition of anonymity 
because the orders had not yet been made public.

In Full: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/682677.html