When Is A Troop Reduction Not A Draw Down?

Published: September 14, 2007, 8:59 am

Tags: stephanie herseth sandlin, tim johnson, iraqi occupation

You are probably reading accounts this morning of President Bush’s speech last night where he proudly announced that US troop levels would be reduced by as much as 30,000 but guess what? According to numerous accounts, it is only because 30,000 troops will have reached the end of their deployments and we don’t have the manpower to replace them! From Senator Tim Johnson in this morning’s RCJ: “Our troops and their families are exhausted. The Petraeus report is mixed, at best,” he said. “We are treading water in Iraq, and the clock keeps ticking in a war that has lasted longer than World War II. It is time for the Iraqi people to take charge of their future and for us to transition our troops to training Iraqi security forces and conducting counter-terrorism operations.” He said that bringing back the 30,000 troops was not a strategy to reduce troop levels because the troops were nearing the end of their deployments. “Many of these 30,000

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