G. Bush 2 send home 8,000 troops back home from Iraq.

Ace · **G. Bush 2 send home 8,000 troops back home from Iraq. -** 08-09-2008, 11:47 PM

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Yahoo! News: WASHINGTON – President Bush plans to keep U.S. troop levels in Iraq near their current level through the end of the year and will pull home about 8,000 U.S. troops by February when the next president will be in charge of wartime decision-making.

If security in Iraq keeps improving, Bush says, "additional reductions will be possible in the first half of 2009."

The president's decisions amount to perhaps his last major troop strategy in a war that has come to define his presidency.

He was to announce the details in a speech Tuesday, the text of which was released in advance by the White House.

One Marine battalion, numbering about 1,000 troops, will go home on schedule in November and not be replaced. An Army brigade of between 3,500 and 4,000 troops will leave in February. Accompanying that combat drawdown will be the withdrawal of about 3,400 support forces.

The measured reduction — slower in scope and pace than many Democrats in Congress would like — gives the military some flexibility to shift forces into Afghanistan.

O rly? I wonder why he would do this????

**mh bich who els**

i remember hearing some shit like bush was planning a surprise attack on a country in the middle east since he's almost out of office and he wants to do whatever the fuck he wants or somethin

**S.HARVEY**

dont believe the hype on that mh, but damn it needs to 18,000, im for the troops because im a veteran of the GULF WAR (17 MONTHS), so bring them home ASAP!!!