Pace charts military deployments in Iraq
The number of U.S. troops remaining in Iraq in 2006 will be determined by the insurgency as well as the capabilities of Iraqi forces, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday.
Gen. Peter Pace said the United States does not have a specific goal for troop numbers, but rather “off-ramps and on-ramps based on what we have on the ground.”
“The enemy has a vote on this,” Pace said on “Fox News Sunday.”
He said that if Americans were looking at a color-coded map of deployments next year, they’ll “see the map and watch the colors change” as Iraqi battalions take over for U.S. forces.
However, he cautioned that the U.S. military needs to be flexible enough to increase forces to handle specific security problems that might arise.
Source: The Island Packet Online.
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