Article: LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Article: REP. BOUSTANY, HOUSE COLLEAGUES ENCOURAGE PRESIDENT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 5, 2007 ;     401 words ... ... Rep. Charles W. Boustany, Jr. (R-La.) today joined twenty-seven Republican Members of Congress in calling on President Bush to encourage the deployment of 21 Iraqi battalions into the city of Baghdad. The battalions, which are currently located ...

Article: General Sees More Iraqi Security Forces
AP Online;  January 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... billion to train and equip Iraqi security forces, while the Iraqis ... training and equipping of Iraqi security forces has long been considered ... 100,000 troops before President Bush leaves office. Iraqi security forces, which now comprise ...

Article: Buildup of Iraqi Security Forces Slowed
AP Online;  January 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... units. Six months ago, Iraqi security forces were in roughly ... the Internet, said the Iraqi security forces would be completely ... turning out at the polls, President Bush said: "We will continue training Iraqi security forces so this rising ...

Article: SEN. HARKIN ISSUES STATEMENT ON TRAINING OF IRAQI ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... deploy an effective Iraqi security force. "President Bush has said repeatedly that as the Iraqi security forces stand up ... it will take for Iraqi security forces to become ... course in Iraq. President Bush has given the Iraqi ...

Article: Iraqi security expansion to cost billions
Charleston Gazette;  February 7, 2007 ;     559 words ... ... expansion, announced Monday as part of President Bush's 2008 budget plan, would increase the Iraqi security forces from 328,000, which was the ... has made the development of competent Iraqi security forces a centerpiece of its strategy ...

Article: U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TRAIN IRAQI SECURITY ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 17, 2008 ;     369 words ... ... following news release: 25 Iraqi Security Force students graduate from ... graduation. "I want to thank President Bush for letting his Special [Operations] Forces teams train Iraqi Security Forces," he said. During ...

Transcript: U.S. Plans Iraqi Security Force
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather;  October 30, 2003 ;     575 words ... ... three more American soldiers were wounded by roadside bombs. Such attacks prompted President Bush to press this week for quicker training of Iraqi security forces. But as CBS`s David Hawkins reports, American or Iraqi, the troops in some ...