[maine-iac7]

strung out from March -to the end of the year - i.e. starting 4 months from now and won't be completed for over a year - during that time, many thousands of the troops will be completing their deployment time and leaving -

I'd like to see that figure - then subtract it from the 34,000 and we'll see how many MORE troops are actually going to be in country.

This is no surge.

He does not want to win this war. His sympathies are with the other side.

[JerseyDvl]

In addition to it being a day late and dollar short, his base is going to furious.

[littleharbour]

The way I read it, most of these new troops are going to be staffing a headquarters, training and support roles. They’ll be lucky to have 5,000 new rifles actually in the field.