Iraq - Cutting U.S. Combat Troops in Iraq

There are lots of reports by different agencies about this story, but I found something interesting in this AP report.

FALLUJAH, Iraq - President Bush has authorized new cuts in U.S. combat troops in Iraq, below the 138,000 level that prevailed for most of this year, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.

Remember how the media keep telling us Iraq is too dangerous for them to even leave Baghdad?

Notice where Burns is reporting from? Fallujah.

And true to the biased AP, Burns drops this clanger:

Bush is under growing pressure from two fronts to pare back the American force in Iraq: the Republican-run Congress and a public increasingly disenchanted with the war and its growing casualties, which have surpassed 2,100 U.S. war dead and 15,000 wounded.

It may be Republican run but it's the Democrats in congress that want to surrender, not the Republicans.

Burns also wants you to ignore the latest polls, three of them, that all say public support for Bush is growing with 71% wanting to stay in Iraq till the job is done.
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