U.S. Forces to Shrink

This is from Military.com:

The top U.S. commander in Iraq predicted on Thursday that the size of the U.S. fighting force will shrink this year, although he said he had not made new recommendations to his Pentagon bosses on the size and timing of any cuts.
"I'm confident that we'll be able to continue to take reductions over the course of this year," Army Gen. George Casey told a Pentagon news conference with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld at his side.

And here's what Rummy said:

It will very likely not be a steady path down," Rumsfeld said. "It could very likely be a drawdown with an increase." Noting that there now are 126,900 U.S. troops in Iraq, he said: "It could very well go back up at some point. It very likely will go down and up and down and up depending on the circumstances and depending on the need."

See, no real committment. This is a no brainer. Of course troops will inevitably go down as Iraqi forces increase! Sort of like predicting in the middle of WW2 that the Army size will be cut after the war. The Press is running out of headline ideas. I predict more media people will be layed off soon as the public tire of idiocy.