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Date: March 11, 2007 10:31:42 PM PDT
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Subject: Bush: "Okay, I Lied About the 'Surge' -- So Sue Me"
Bush confirms troop escalation plans
By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
6:39 PM PDT, March 11, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
bushsurge12mar12,0,172807.story?coll=la-home-headlines
BOGOTA, Colombia -- President Bush confirmed Sunday that he will be
sending thousands of new support troops to Iraq and Afghanistan,
above and beyond the previously announced "surge" of 21,500 combat
troops.
At a news conference in Colombia, Bush said an increase in support
troops for Iraq was anticipated from the start, and his initial
figure referred just to combat troops.
"Those combat troops are going to need some support," Bush said.
"And that's what the American people are seeing in terms of Iraq,
the support troops necessary to help the reinforcements do their
job. My hope, of course, is that Congress provides the funding
necessary for the combat troops to be able to do their job, without
any strings attached."
Late Saturday, while in Uruguay, the White House released the text
of a request from Bush to Congress to provide funding for the
additional support troops, including a previously unannounced boost
of 3,500 troops for Afghanistan. Those troops would be in addition
to the president's decision to extend the deployment of a 3,200-
member brigade combat team in Afghanistan.
National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the $3.2
billion requested in the letter would pay for the 3,500 troops for
Afghanistan, as well as an Iraq deployment of 2,400 combat support
troops, 2,200 military police and 129 troops for provincial
reconstruction teams.
"In terms of Afghanistan, I did announce, as a result of a review
of our policy, an additional 3,200 troops," Bush explained during
the news conference. "But in addition to that, the troops that
you're referring to are going to be part of a training and
embedding mission that I did also discuss during that strategy,
although I didn't have any details of the troops."
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