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The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat brigades and extending tours of duty for troops already there.

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TechnologyExpert
May 22, 2007, 10:44 a.m.
The actions could boost the number of combat soldiers from 52,500 in early January to as many as 98,000 by the end of this year if the Pentagon overlaps arriving and departing combat brigades.
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pawfoots
May 22, 2007, 11:08 a.m.
Good.
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doppich
May 22, 2007, 1:19 p.m.
So the "Surge" has failed 4 months early, and Plan B - a bigger surge - is already quietly underway. I think this was once known as "escalation." One must wonder: Is Iran the new Cambodia?
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bubba2
May 22, 2007, 5:59 p.m.
Where are they going to get more troops? I guess the recruiters will close their regular headquarters and go straight to the prisons?
I am really tired of the Democrats being wimps. They need to stop all funding of all troops in Iraq. That will get them home, when there is no money to spend on keeping them there.
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el4sail
May 22, 2007, 9:31 p.m.
16 troops are wounded or injured for each fatality.
They will be raiding the hosspitals for reinforcments.
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el4sail
May 22, 2007, 11:45 p.m.
Hey where are those three captured invaders?
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DoseASpinoza
May 23, 2007, 10:45 a.m.
In Vietnam we called them "military advisors."