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Congress: U.S. Can’t Maintain Current Troop Levels

HeadlineSep 03, 2003

Yesterday a Congressional Budget Office study revealed that the U.S. can not keep up its level of troops presence in Iraq past new spring.

The study concluded: “The Army does not have enough active-duty component forces to simultaneously maintain the occupation at its current size, limit deployments to one year, and sustain all of its other commitments.”

Yesterday three more U.S. troops died.

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