I thought the Iraq War was over!
Submitted by LatinsforPaul on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 12:20I new the MSM and Obama were lying to me. God help us!
US Sending 1,000 More Troops to Iraq
As Officials Tout 'Drawdown,' Why Is US Adding Troops?
by Jason Ditz, September 15, 2009
Though the Iraq War has long since become an after-thought amid Obama Administration claims that the “drawdown” in on track, the Pentagon is reporting today that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has approved a request to send about 1,000 additional troops to Iraq.
The latest report comes less than a week after it was revealed that the Pentagon has added thousands of additional contractors to Iraq, ostensibly to replace US troops during the drawdown.
But of course the drawdown isn’t actually happening. President Obama inherited a war with roughly 135,000 troops in Iraq, and today there are 131,000 and thousands of contractors. Officials have previously insisted there will be no meaningful troop level changes until at least 60 days after January’s parliamentary elections.
Now, over two and a half years after the “surge” in Iraq, troop levels are still above pre-surge levels and apparently will be rising in the near term. Ambassador Hill may claim the US is sticking to its timetable, but it seems that at some point such a highly touted withdrawal will have to involve the removal of some actual troops.
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/15/us-sending-1000-more-troo...
LatinsforPaul~I saw that~ MORE troops!
Also see this post here on the same subject!
US Increasing Force Size in Iraq by Adding Contractors
Thousands of Contractors Being Added to Cover for Troop 'Pullouts' Which Still Aren't Happening
A report by Raw Story’s John Byrne notes that despite President Obama’s pledge with withdraw troops from Iraq, the overall force size is actually increasing in recent months, as thousands of new private contractors are being brought in.
The Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the new contractors, mostly mercenaries from Uganda and Kenya, and its estimates involve adding significantly more contractors at the bases to cover for the US pullout. In one example, 900 contractors
are to replace 400 soldiers.
This is adding to concern that while the US is pretending to “stand down” in Iraq, it is actually still as active as ever and is just using contractors to do the jobs that were previously done by the American troops. This puts the whole pullout in a different light.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/107290
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