Rumsfeld: 3rd Infantry to leave Iraq soon [View All]

[cspiguy]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-07-09-troops-to-return_x.htm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army's 3rd Infantry Division, which played a central role in capturing Baghdad in April, is beginning a pullout from Iraq, and the entire unit will be back in the United States by September, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

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Thank God these men and women are getting out of that mess - but this signal even further evidence of the lack of objective reality at work in pentagon planning? Do they really think things are winding down and by fall can be handled by bluehelmets?