Sounds like bull to me. All of our soldiers MAY go to Iraq.
Notice that there is no names, so one is identified as saying this.
The other answer is that the recruiters did say this, but because it was said and not in black and white, no one is able to confirm nor deny it was ever said. 3rd BCT was at Balad when I was there. They had their act together from what I saw. Security was much better with them than with the group that replaced them (81st WANG-yea the same unit with Anderson getting busted AND the same unit that Hackworth profiled as they were mobilizing).