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Rumsfeld in Gulf Region as U.S. Troops Battle Iraqis

From the article:
"Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had urged Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) to send an extra 5,000 soldiers to Iraq or risk "strategic failure."

Speaking of "strategic failure" the NON-PARTISAN Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that without either increasing past a year tours to Iraq or increasing the size of the Army by at least 2 divisions, we will run out of troops to maintain our CURRENT deployment (much less increase it) by March.



The Washintgton Post:

Army Lacks Forces for Iraq Mission, CBO Warns


How many of our troops will sign on for a second tour?

From the article:

"Guard and Reserve units are playing a major role in the occupation, and additional Guard and Reserve units are being activated to take over more of the Iraq mission early next year, the report noted. But it added that unless even more Guard and Reserve units are mobilized, "an occupation force of the present size could not be maintained past March 2004."



Suddenly the U.N starts looking good again, eh?