Keep wishing, Rummy
Will the seventeen people who still believe Rumsfeld please wake up and snap out of it?
Rumsfeld: More U.S. Troops for Iraq Not Essential
Sun Jun 27, 2004 08:32 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States may not have to send more troops to Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday.
"The real task of security is not to flood a country with more and more troops," Rumsfeld told BBC Television from Istanbul, where he will attend a NATO summit.
He said the U.S. Army was making contingency plans for more troops, should commanders in Iraq request reinforcements.
"That does not mean that we will necessarily need them, that means we will do the prudent planning," he added.
The United States has about 140,000 troops in Iraq joined by nearly 25,000 other foreign troops.
Posted by Prometheus 6 on June 27, 2004 - 8:46am :: War
