The Daily Background
| Emergency: U.S. to deploy reserves to Iraq
Filed at 5:30 pm, Tuesday May 30th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Sending in the reserves.
The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge of violence linked to the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has severely damaged efforts to turn Sunni Arab tribal leaders against the insurgency.
What? Ignore that! Look! There’s four soldiers coming home! See? We’re decreasing the number of soldiers in Iraq! We swear!
