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U.S. may increase number of troops in Iraq

The war with Iraq hasn't been in the news lately but has been on "the back burner" of everyone's minds. I recently read that the United States general, John Abizaid, would like to stabilize or increase the number of troops in Iraq. Bush administration offices said that they would like to decrease the number of troops by 100,000 this election year. Due to the violent outbreaks in Iraq, troops are going to have to stay there longer or we may even have to increase the numbers.

As of right now most of the troops would be going to Baghdad. Most of the violence in concentrated in that area of Iraq. Security is starting to get better in the Baghdad area. Although Iraqi authorities said that they found three bodies blindfolded and dumped. They believe that this is the work of killings between Shiite and Sunni Arabs. The U.S. and other countries haven't forgotten the the western Anbar province.

I think that the Bush administration has been telling the U.S. people lies from the get go. They knew to some extent how many troops would be needed to win this war. I believe that the government said that they would reduce the amount of troops by this election year to make the people as a whole happier. Sending more troops would help out the efforts in this war but at what costs in the U.S. willing to take? How many people are going to die for this war? I realize that we can't take out all of our troops, but the U.S. government needs to find other alternatives to help win this war.

Here is the link to check out the article: General says U.S. may increase troops in Iraq

posted by Anonymous @ 9/20/2006 10:09:00 PM