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Troop reduction or reshuffle?
Bad enough that this NYT headline - “Mixon: U.S. Troop Reduction Could Begin in Jan. 2008″ - is thoroughly misleading, as Maj. Gen. Mixon is describing only the possibility of reducing the number of troops assigned to northern Iraq, but reporter Ann Tyson seems strangely incurious about just where those reassigned troops are going.
Mixon’s announcement sounds like a preparation of the political ground for a surge within the surge; those “reduced” troops could well be bound for Baghdad, where the Iraqi police are less than trustworthy and bodies are filling the streets.
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