Bush: "It will be early June before all U.S. forces dedicated to the operation are in place"

sabra

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Wed Apr-04-07 12:46 PM
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Bush: "It will be early June before all U.S. forces dedicated to the operation are in place"

Wasn't the "surge" only supposed to be a few months?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070403.html

President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental
The Rose Garden

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At this moment, two of the five additional U.S. Army brigades we are sending for this mission are operating in Baghdad. A third brigade is now moving from Kuwait, and will be fully operational in Baghdad in the coming weeks. And the remaining two brigades will deploy in April and May. It will be early June before all U.S. forces dedicated to the operation are in place. So this operation is still in its beginning stages.

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Secondly, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, Bill, there's only 40 percent of our troops that are there on the ground. And so I find it somewhat astounding that people in Congress would start calling for withdrawal even before all the troops have made it to Baghdad.

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napi21

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Wed Apr-04-07 12:50 PM
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1. What's the matter Shrub? Can't you FIND enough troops to fill

your "surge"? This sounds like just another trick to run out the clock!

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Wed Apr-04-07 01:01 PM
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2. early June of which year? 2008?

or later if you declare martial law?

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