Iraq Forces Part of Surge
The new nation fights for its independance. From CentCom:
A plus-up of Iraqi soldiers is a component of President Bush’s strategy to stabilize Iraq’s capital city and parts of western Iraq, senior U.S. military officials said during a Baghdad news conference today.
After conferring with top administration officials and senior Iraqi authorities, Bush last week announced a temporary increase, or surge, of about 21,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines to help dampen sectarian and insurgent violence in Iraq’s capital city and parts of Anbar province in the western part of the country. “This plan is different in that there is a strong political commitment from the government of Iraq,” Navy Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox, acting Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told reporters. “There is more Iraqi buy-in. The plan is Iraqi-conceived and Iraqi-led.”
Training Iraqi military and police so they can ultimately assume responsibility for security in their country remains the essential U.S. task in Iraq, Fox said.
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A plus-up of Iraqi soldiers is a component of President Bush’s strategy to stabilize Iraq’s capital city and parts of western Iraq, senior U.S. military officials said during a Baghdad news conference today.
After conferring with top administration officials and senior Iraqi authorities, Bush last week announced a temporary increase, or surge, of about 21,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines to help dampen sectarian and insurgent violence in Iraq’s capital city and parts of Anbar province in the western part of the country. “This plan is different in that there is a strong political commitment from the government of Iraq,” Navy Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox, acting Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, told reporters. “There is more Iraqi buy-in. The plan is Iraqi-conceived and Iraqi-led.”
Training Iraqi military and police so they can ultimately assume responsibility for security in their country remains the essential U.S. task in Iraq, Fox said.
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