President Bush is set to announce that he backs a Pentagon redeployment plan and will withdraw troops from Europe and Asia.
President Bush is to announce on Monday that he supports a Pentagon redeployment plan and will withdraw up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in the most significant rearrangement of the American military since the end of the cold war, an administration official said Saturday.
In a television interview in Australia, Mr. Howard said the senator's redeployment plan would simply inspire insurgent violence in Iraq.
Mrs. Clinton said the intelligence estimate was based on a "faulty premise" because it did not take into account the sort of "phased redeployment" plan she was advocating.
The troop redeployment plan announced yesterday by President Bush makes little long-term strategic sense.
Democrats advocate a spectrum of more or less similar positions — an array, not a disarray — ranging from Representative John Murtha's call for rapid disengagement to the detailed "strategic redeployment" plan backed by the Center for American Progress.
The bill would also require quarterly updates to Congress on the status of the war and the redeployment plan, but would not actually require the plan to be put into action.
In recent statements recounting the case they made for delaying the return of American soldiers from Europe, Army generals described a world that was not the same as when Mr. Rumsfeld approved the redeployment plans.
And the House, by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, approved a bill that would require the administration within 60 days to prepare a plan for a redeployment of American forces from Iraq and to report to Congress.
It's just a redeployment of those employment opportunities.
