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President Bush, in a speech this morning, announced that the US will be withdrawing 5 brigades from Iraq.  He also says that we have "revived the prospect of success" in Iraq which has become a common talking point by those who are supportive of continuing our engagement there.  Further, he is "decreasing" the deployment lengths from 15 months to 12, but the new deployment lengths will kick in for troops that deploy after August 1st. There are a few problems with this announcement, most notably that we've known for over a year now that we would be compelled to withdraw at least 5 brigades from Iraq this year.  The surge itself was simply an overlap of deployments where some troops were deployed early and others were stop-lossed into extended tours.  Our military has been over-extended, over-deployed and under-supported.  The draw down is simply an acknowledgement that any further surge would have, in the words of many in the military...
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