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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
There's no real conflict. The specific brigades that were involved in the surge are indeed being rotated out--because their tours are ending. But you have to look at pre- and post-surge troop levels to judge whether the surge has ended. Pre-surge levels were around 128,000. Right now the U.S. forces in Iraq are 155,000 with plans to get down to 140,000 by the end of July. There's no return to pre-surge troop levels in the offing.
When McCain said that they were "down to pre-surge levels" he was either fudging the truth or uninformed. Neither is particularly promising. Of course, he's made a number of Iraq-related claims that are so untrue as to be just bizarre, so one wonders if it's something pathological with him.
Here's a link for the info:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-...verb_tens.html |
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