The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, GEN Richard Myers whom many of you will recognize from the Pentagon briefings he gave along side Secretary Rumsfeld, gave further indications that the 3d Infantry Division may not leave Baghdad as quickly as planned.
A month after their capital city fell to U.S. forces, Iraqis in Baghdad go to bed each night to the sound of AK-47s bursts overhead. It isn’t continuous, not at all, but it is still disconcerting.
Security, Myers said, is a fundamental concern. To meet the challenge, he said, additional military personnel are arriving each day.
“The scheme would be that eventually they would replace some of the units that have been here the longest, but that remains to be seen,” Myers said at a news conference after his briefings.
“It would be event driven. There’s not a timeline we’re on. We’ll look at events, and we’ll look at security in Baghdad. We’ll look at the security in other major population centers. We’ll look at security in the rest of the country and make those decisions as we go along.”
One has to feel for those guys. They are the ones that did all the heavy lifting during the hostilities, along side the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. The Marines have redeployed, but the 3d ID is still there trying to catch a break.
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