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Bush to announce tonight, change in ROE
Course, the headline used by Fox is Official: Bush to Admit Iraq Mistakes snipping The new approach includes sending 20,000 additional U.S. troops to join the 132,000 already there. Their purpose will be to help "break the cycle" of violence to "allow for the type of breathing space that the Iraqis need to get the type of political and economic reconciliation we all know that's necessary for that country to move forward," Bartlett told FOX News. "President Bush would not commit one additional troop to Baghdad if it weren't based upon a new strategy with new outcomes to be expected," Bartlett said. "And that requires two basic things ... one, there has to be more Iraqi troops on the ground what we saw last time is that the Iraqis made pledges to bring in Iraqi troops that didn't materialize and, two, and just as importantly, is that the rules of engagement, the places where these troops can go and actually conduct operations, have to be different." Posted by: Sherry 2007-01-10 |
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