Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
02/25/2008
Pelosi Statement on U.S. Troops Levels in Iraq
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the
following statement today on the Pentagon acknowledging that it will maintain a
force of 140,000 troops in Iraq through July 2008—8,000 more than the pre-surge
troop level in January of last year:
“The statement from the Pentagon today on troop levels in
“Both the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral
Mike Mullen, and the Army Chief of Staff, General George Casey have stated that
repeated
“As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, Americans continue to demand a New Direction in Iraq and reject a continuation of the President’s plan for a 10-year, trillion dollar war in Iraq.”