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  • U.S. struggling to find replacement troops

    07/18/2003 4:54:43 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 44 replies · 653+ views
    SanLuisObispo.com ^ | 7/18/03 | Joesph L. Galloway - Knight Ridder
    WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The Pentagon is scrambling to find enough fresh troops to begin an orderly rotation program that would bring home some of the 147,000 soldiers spread thinly across troubled Iraq.With the new commanding general of U.S. Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, confirming what others in the Defense Department had been reluctant to admit - that United States forces face an increasingly deadly guerrilla war - the question of relief and rotation for weary GIs moved to the front burner.The easiest fix would be for the 14,000 foreign forces, mostly British, already in Iraq to be augmented by...