U.S. on Track for Iraq Troop Reduction

Agence France-Presse | July 27, 2005

The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Wednesday that U.S. troop levels could be substantially reduced by early next year as a top Iraqi official said the U.S. could hand over security in 10 cities by December.

"If the political process continues to go positively and if the development of the security forces continues to go on, I do believe that we will be able to make fairly substantial reductions after these (December) elections, in the spring," said General George Casey....

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(Personal note: I hope this means that the chance of the boys going back for yet another deployment next year or the year after is signficantly reduced.)